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- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T21:00:49.000+00:00
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Phoenix Sky Harbor ranks among the least stressful major airports in the country in a new analysis, though one number in the study cuts the other way.

Rightway Parking looked at 55 of the busiest U.S. airports and scored each one on five factors: delay rate, cancellation rate, how much delays have grown since 2021, and the distance and drive time from downtown. It used 2025 federal flight data and Google Maps drive times. Sky Harbor came in sixth least stressful. Salt Lake City ranked first, followed by San Jose and Honolulu. Dallas/Fort Worth ranked most stressful, followed by Chicago O’Hare and Reagan National.

Sky Harbor’s strengths were a low cancellation rate, 0.71 percent of flights in 2025, and a short trip from downtown, about four miles and nine minutes.

The catch is delays. About 20.92 percent of Sky Harbor flights were delayed in 2025, meaning more than one in five. That is still below the highest rates in the study: Dallas/Fort Worth at 27.86 percent, West Palm Beach at 26 percent and Denver at 25.4 percent.

It isn’t the only recent ranking to put Sky Harbor near the top. Mozio placed it second among the 20 busiest airports, with 78.7 percent of flights leaving on time, $33 daily parking and an 11-minute drive downtown. A holiday travel study from Travel by Luxe ranked it first of 30 airports, citing a two-minute security wait and a 0.31 percent cancellation rate. Booking.com for Business also named it the least stressful in its research.

These are private studies, not official rankings, and they use different measures, so results vary. Rightway notes that a stressful airport isn’t necessarily an unsafe or poorly run one.

Source: Rightway Parking

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