Carrier route record
OOABQ→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Albuquerque to Denver
- Flights
- 908
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 28%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ABQ to DEN earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 908 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 845 at 83.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ABQ to DEN record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 901 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.3%
Every carrier on ABQ to DEN, 3,216 flights
These figures cover 908 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ABQ to DEN
SkyWest flew 908 of the 3,216 flights on ABQ to DEN, about 28% of it. Its 86.2% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.2% to Southwest at 79.6%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 908 | 86.2% | 81 min | 0.55% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 845 | 83.0% | 78 min | 0.83% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,463 | 79.6% | 58 min | 0.48% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 83.0%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on ABQ to DEN
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am202 flights95.0%
- 8am–11am157 flights94.3%
- 11am–2pm217 flights91.2%
- 2pm–5pm31 flights—
- 5pm–8pm299 flights75.7%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.0% of the time, against 75.7% 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. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 299 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ABQ to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 71.8% on time, 25 points below November, the best at 96.6%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 105 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 91.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 81.7%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ABQ to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on ABQ to DEN often beats the schedule: 293 of 901 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 124 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 42 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 44 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early293 flights32.5%
- Within 15 min484 flights53.7%
- 15–29 min late38 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late42 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late21 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 901 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 94 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. 41 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on ABQ to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 August 2026, 16 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2026 | 16 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 15 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 August 2026 | 10 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 July 2026 | 8 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 February 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 30%National Airspace System
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,417 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,088 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 349 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 84.4% on time across 908 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 908 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on ABQ to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 908 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 86.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 901 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ABQ to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to ABQ, the return leg
- United Airlines on ABQ to DEN83.0%
- Southwest Airlines on ABQ to DEN79.6%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) delay statistics
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.