Carrier performance at one airport
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SkyWest Airlines at Dallas/Fort Worth International
- Departures
- 23,575
- Period
- June 2025 to May 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #3 of 9
SkyWest Airlines at Dallas-Fort Worth lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.4%. About one flight in four arrive 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 23,575 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 63,507 at 81.7% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, SkyWest Airlines runs 5 points ahead of the 71.8% weighted average across all carriers at DFW. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
22,669 completed departures
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
3.18%
At DFW, this carrier only
Rank here
#3
Of 9 carriers clearing the floor at DFW
These figures cover 24,000 flights between June 2025 and May 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Against the competition
Every carrier at DFW, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 81.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 66.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 164,554 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 63,507 | 81.7% | 54 min | 2.11% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 11,826 | 80.7% | 88 min | 2.47% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 23,575 | 76.5% | 80 min | 3.18% | B− |
| United Airlines | 9,723 | 75.9% | 87 min | 1.76% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 9,482 | 75.2% | 78 min | 2.20% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 22,776 | 73.2% | 91 min | 4.25% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 5,055 | 73.1% | 72 min | 2.85% | C |
| Alaska Airlines | 2,359 | 70.7% | 58 min | 1.40% | C |
| American Airlines | 164,554 | 66.0% | 73 min | 2.99% | C |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where SkyWest Airlines flies from DFW
SkyWest Airlines operates 25 routes out of DFW with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to SAF · Santa Fe | 1,751 | 76.4% | 65 min | 2.57% | B |
| DFW to SHV · Shreveport | 1,518 | 72.8% | 85 min | 3.89% | C− |
| DFW to ASE · Aspen | 1,205 | 69.4% | 77 min | 4.48% | C− |
| DFW to DRO · Durango | 1,176 | 79.1% | 73 min | 2.55% | B |
| DFW to SJT · San Angelo | 1,078 | 79.0% | 98 min | 3.99% | B− |
| DFW to SBN · South Bend | 871 | 74.3% | 87 min | 1.49% | C |
| DFW to PVU · Provo | 773 | 74.4% | 83 min | 2.07% | C |
| DFW to MAF · Midland | 767 | 77.6% | 86 min | 2.09% | B |
| DFW to GRI · Grand Island | 717 | 76.3% | 101 min | 2.93% | B |
| DFW to SGU · St. George | 716 | 77.1% | 76 min | 0.70% | B+ |
| DFW to BPT · Beaumont | 652 | 78.9% | 126 min | 2.91% | B |
| DFW to TYR · Tyler | 595 | 78.2% | 79 min | 6.55% | B− |
| DFW to GRK · Killeen | 590 | 76.2% | 98 min | 4.92% | B− |
| DFW to COS · Colorado Springs | 587 | 71.5% | 84 min | 3.07% | C− |
| DFW to ROW · Roswell | 582 | 77.1% | 72 min | 3.26% | B− |
| DFW to IDA · Idaho Falls | 529 | 74.9% | 78 min | 1.89% | C |
| DFW to ACT · Waco | 463 | 80.0% | 95 min | 4.75% | B− |
| DFW to MHK · Manhattan | 447 | 75.5% | 63 min | 2.24% | B |
| DFW to LIT · Little Rock | 429 | 74.8% | 66 min | 2.10% | C |
| DFW to FLG · Flagstaff | 424 | 78.3% | 82 min | 2.83% | B |
| DFW to LBB · Lubbock | 414 | 78.8% | 108 min | 3.62% | B− |
| DFW to GCK · Garden City | 397 | 75.8% | 76 min | 3.78% | B− |
| DFW to SAT · San Antonio | 384 | 81.2% | 70 min | 2.86% | B |
| DFW to AEX · Alexandria | 380 | 79.9% | 96 min | 4.21% | B− |
| DFW to AUS · Austinthin sample | 356 | 74.7% | 72 min | 1.97% | C |
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am1,163 flights87.0%
- 8am–11am4,881 flights84.0%
- 11am–2pm4,313 flights80.4%
- 2pm–5pm4,574 flights71.3%
- 5pm–8pm3,546 flights68.1%
- 8pm–5am5,098 flights73.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.0% of the time, against 68.1% for the evening window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
June is the worst month at 67.3% on time, 14 points below September, the best at 81.4%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 49%Carrier
- 23%Extreme weather
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 23% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.7 times the usual weather exposure.
Cancellations run at 3.18%, against 1.80% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.2% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
23,575 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.18% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic.
Common questions
SkyWest Airlines at DFW
How often is SkyWest Airlines at DFW delayed?
About one flight in four arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.5% of the 23,575 flights in this analysis, against 22.6% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on SkyWest Airlines at DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 81.7% on time across 63,507 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 66.0%, a gap of 16 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SkyWest Airlines at DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.0% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 68.1%, 19 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are June delays on SkyWest Airlines at DFW?
June is the weakest month at 67.3% on time, compared with 81.4% in September. Across the year that is 14 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, June 2025 to May 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.