Carrier route record
OOACT→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Waco to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 457
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ACT to DFW earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 457 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ACT to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 431 completed flights
Avg delay
133 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.47%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.2%
Every carrier on ACT to DFW, 1,073 flights
These figures cover 457 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ACT to DFW
SkyWest flew 457 of the 1,073 flights on ACT to DFW, about 43% of it. Its 84.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.7% to Envoy at 82.1%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 457 | 84.7% | 133 min | 5.47% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 616 | 82.1% | 71 min | 3.57% | B− |
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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am102 flights91.7%
- 8am–11am92 flights86.7%
- 11am–2pm73 flights84.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm190 flights80.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.7% of the time, against 80.0% for the evening window. That is 12 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 190 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ACT to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights84.4%
- Oct–Dec 2025147 flights84.3%
- Jan–Mar 2026127 flights81.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.4%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.7% on time across 457 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on ACT to DFW held fairly steady: 84.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 81.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 72.1%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 62% of the 8,779 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 62%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,779 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 5,404 of the 8,779 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.47%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.2 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 90 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.5% on time across 457 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 457 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 ACT to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.47% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; 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. 431 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.