Carrier performance at one airport
OO→DFW
SkyWest Airlines at Dallas/Fort Worth International
- Departures
- 22,429
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #3 of 10
SkyWest Airlines at Dallas-Fort Worth lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 22,429 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 64,201 at 83.6% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, SkyWest Airlines runs 5 points ahead of the 72.8% 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
77.7%
21,657 completed departures
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.89%
At DFW, this carrier only
Rank here
#3
Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at DFW
These figures cover 22,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Against the competition
Every carrier at DFW, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.6% of the time; American Airlines manages 66.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 164,984 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 64,201 | 83.6% | 57 min | 2.02% | B |
| Delta Air Lines | 11,632 | 81.4% | 88 min | 2.59% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 22,429 | 77.7% | 82 min | 2.89% | B |
| United Airlines | 10,062 | 76.6% | 86 min | 1.62% | B |
| Alaska Airlines | 2,459 | 76.1% | 56 min | 1.10% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 22,290 | 74.7% | 89 min | 4.25% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines | 10,947 | 74.1% | 81 min | 2.10% | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,241 | 74.0% | 74 min | 3.95% | C− |
| JetBlue Airways | 480 | 69.3% | 99 min | 3.12% | C− |
| American Airlines | 164,984 | 66.7% | 73 min | 2.68% | 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 | 1,765 | 76.9% | 75 min | 2.32% | B |
| DFW to SHV · Shreveport | 1,436 | 74.5% | 90 min | 3.20% | C− |
| DFW to ASE · Aspen | 1,187 | 68.4% | 79 min | 4.47% | C− |
| DFW to DRO · Durango | 1,177 | 79.3% | 71 min | 2.38% | B |
| DFW to SJT · San Angelo | 1,078 | 80.3% | 94 min | 3.80% | B− |
| DFW to SBN · South Bend | 788 | 72.7% | 96 min | 1.52% | C |
| DFW to MAF · Midland | 730 | 79.4% | 81 min | 2.05% | B |
| DFW to GRI · Grand Island | 703 | 75.6% | 105 min | 2.42% | B |
| DFW to SGU · St. George | 698 | 76.0% | 86 min | 0.43% | B+ |
| DFW to COS · Colorado Springs | 697 | 73.9% | 74 min | 2.44% | C |
| DFW to PVU · Provo | 681 | 76.2% | 71 min | 1.76% | B |
| DFW to BPT · Beaumont | 654 | 78.6% | 127 min | 2.91% | B |
| DFW to GRK · Killeen | 597 | 75.6% | 101 min | 5.03% | B− |
| DFW to ROW · Roswell | 585 | 82.7% | 67 min | 2.91% | B |
| DFW to TYR · Tyler | 583 | 77.9% | 80 min | 6.52% | B− |
| DFW to IDA · Idaho Falls | 555 | 77.6% | 82 min | 1.26% | B |
| DFW to GCK · Garden City | 459 | 75.7% | 83 min | 3.49% | B− |
| DFW to ACT · Waco | 457 | 81.7% | 99 min | 4.60% | B− |
| DFW to HOU · Houston | 449 | 74.6% | 65 min | 3.12% | C− |
| DFW to LBB · Lubbock | 402 | 78.8% | 99 min | 3.73% | B− |
| DFW to AMA · Amarillothin sample | 343 | 79.8% | 81 min | 1.75% | B |
| DFW to LIT · Little Rockthin sample | 342 | 78.0% | 69 min | 1.75% | B |
| DFW to GJT · Grand Junctionthin sample | 334 | 81.7% | 75 min | 2.10% | B |
| DFW to FLG · Flagstaffthin sample | 332 | 79.5% | 78 min | 2.71% | B |
| DFW to SWO · Stillwaterthin sample | 325 | 83.1% | 95 min | 1.85% | B |
Flight by flight
SkyWest Airlines flight numbers from DFW
8 SkyWest Airlines flight numbers leaving DFW flew their main route often enough to have a record of their own. Grouped by destination.
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 17 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1,102 flights87.6%
- 8am–11am4,805 flights84.2%
- 11am–2pm4,084 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm4,007 flights73.6%
- 5pm–8pm3,513 flights70.2%
- 8pm–5am4,918 flights75.8%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.6% of the time, against 70.2% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 4,918 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
February is the weak month at 72.7% on time, against 81.4% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 2,256 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 45%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 396,960 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.89%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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.
9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
22,429 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 2.89% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 21,657 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SkyWest Airlines at DFW
How often is SkyWest Airlines at DFW delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.3% of the 22,429 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
Which airline is most reliable on SkyWest Airlines at DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 83.6% on time across 64,201 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 66.7%, a gap of 17 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 87.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 70.2%, 17 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 February delays on SkyWest Airlines at DFW?
February is the weakest month at 72.7% on time, compared with 81.4% in September. Across the year that is 9 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.