We consider the maximal function $\left|\right|\left(S^{a}f\right)\left[x\right]{\left|\right|}_{L^{\infty }[-1,1]}$ where $\left(S^{a}f\right){\left(t\right)}^{\wedge }\left(\xi \right)=e^{{it\left|\xi \right|}^a}f̂\left(\xi \right)$ and 0 < a < 1. We prove the global estimate $\left|\right|S^{a}f{\left|\right|}_{L²(ℝ,L^{\infty }[-1,1])}{\le C\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{H^s\left(ℝ\right)}$, s > a/4, with C independent of f. This is known to be almost sharp with respect to the Sobolev regularity s.