Flight history · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · US DOT on-time records
AA 1997 · Phoenix (PHX) → Newark (EWR)
Sold by American. Still flying: 56 of the last 56 days (Daily).
Arrives on time64%within 15 minutes, of 72 flights
Cancelled2.8%of scheduled flights
An hour or more late4%of flights that operated
When late, on average43 minlate, among flights 15+ min late
Schedule
Typical times in the Jun 6 – Jul 31, 2026 schedule, local at each airport (Newark is 3 h ahead of Phoenix).
- Leaves PHX
- 09:20
- Arrives EWR
- 17:20
- Flight time
- 5h 00m
- Days flown, last 8 weeks
- 56 of 56
Each square is a day, Sat Jun 6 to Fri Jul 31, two weeks per row (each column is the same weekday); filled = flew.
How late it arrives
Share of flights that operated arriving more than this late.
Horizontal: minutes late at arrival (0 to 3 hours). Vertical: share of flights later than that.
Its hour at PHX
All flights leaving Phoenix (PHX) at 9–10 am, wherever they’re going: 84% left within 15 minutes and 0.7% were cancelled (13,591 flights in the year). Other American flights on this route →
Upcoming forecasts
Our odds that this flight is late or cancelled on the days we publish.