Carrier route record
OOACT→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Waco to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 457
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ACT to DFW 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 457 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ACT to DFW record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 82 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 433 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.7%
Every carrier on ACT to DFW, 1,072 flights
These figures cover 457 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ACT to DFW
SkyWest flew 457 of the 1,072 flights on ACT to DFW, about 43% of it. Its 85.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.9% to SkyWest at 85.5%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 615 | 85.9% | 81 min | 2.93% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 457 | 85.5% | 112 min | 5.03% | A− |
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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am102 flights91.7%
- 8am–11am62 flights83.9%
- 11am–2pm103 flights90.0%
- 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
February is the weak month at 70.6% on time, against 96.8% in August. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 95.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.8%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ACT to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on ACT to DFW often beats the schedule: 199 of 433 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on ACT to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 36 of its 63 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 20 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early199 flights46.0%
- Within 15 min171 flights39.5%
- 15–29 min late14 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late20 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 433 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 6 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on ACT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 9 hours 6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 9 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 6 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 November 2025 | 5 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 January 2026 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 7,074 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,074 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,851 of the 7,074 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
8.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two 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 81.7% 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 5.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two 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. 433 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.