Carrier route record

OOABQ→DEN

SkyWest Airlines · Albuquerque to Denver

Flights: 895
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 28%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 895 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 817 at 83.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ABQ to DEN record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 887 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.78%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.1%

Every carrier on ABQ to DEN, 3,175 flights

These figures cover 895 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on ABQ to DEN

SkyWest flew 895 of the 3,175 flights on ABQ to DEN, about 28% of it. Its 85.6% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.6% to Southwest at 79.1%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ABQ to DEN
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	895	85.6%	57 min	0.78%	A+
United Airlines	817	83.5%	78 min	0.86%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,463	79.1%	59 min	0.62%	B+

No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 83.5%, 4 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

OO 583411:0091.0% · 336 flights

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 24 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am219 flights94.5%
8am–11am78 flights97.4%
11am–2pm279 flights89.5%
2pm–5pm19 flights—
5pm–8pm298 flights73.1%
8pm–5am2 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 97.4% of the time, against 73.1% for the evening window. That is 24 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 298 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on ABQ to DEN through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.November best, July worst

July is the worst month at 73.0% on time, 24 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 93 flights.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 91.6% on time and Thursday the weakest at 79.7%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 7,343 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
41%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
9%
Security
0%

41% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 3,031 minutes out of 7,343, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,343 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.78%, below the national 1.81% 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 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 83.5% on time across 895 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. 895 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. 895 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 85.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 887 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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