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PHL to LAS flight delays

Philadelphia, PA (PHL) Las Vegas, NV (LAS) · 2,177 miles

143 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

63.83%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.4%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

73 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

28 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The two directions do not behave alike. LAS to PHL arrives on time 17.6 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.

This is a late route. Flights from Philadelphia to Las Vegas miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.

This route does worse than its own airport. PHL as a whole runs 10.3 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.

Only American Airlines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over March 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on PHL to LAS.

Every airline on PHL to LAS

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
American Airlines 120 64.41% 1.67% 66 min D
Frontier Airlines 23 60.87% 0% 104 min

Common questions

Are flights from Philadelphia to Las Vegas usually delayed?

63.83% of flights on the PHL to LAS route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airlines fly from Philadelphia to Las Vegas?

Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 120 flights and 64.41% arriving on time.

How often are PHL to LAS flights cancelled?

1.4% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 14 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

When PHL to LAS flights are late, how late are they?

About 73 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on PHL to LAS during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →