Carrier route record
OOAEX→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Alexandria to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 324
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 31%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on AEX to DFW lands a B−, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on AEX to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.25%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.9%
Every carrier on AEX to DFW, 1,045 flights
These figures cover 324 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 AEX to DFW
SkyWest flew 324 of the 1,045 flights on AEX to DFW, about 31% of it. Its 80.1% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to SkyWest at 80.1%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 721 | 84.1% | 76 min | 3.74% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 324 | 80.1% | 90 min | 5.25% | 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 26 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–8am137 flights91.5%
- 8am–11am65 flights82.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm122 flights65.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.5% of the time, against 65.5% for the evening window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 137 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on AEX to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025243 flights77.0%
- Oct–Dec 202543 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202638 flights94.3%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 80.1% on time across 324 flights.
SkyWest on AEX to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 94.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.0%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 108 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 88.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.7%. 16 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 5,491 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Extreme weather
- 31%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 37% 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 5.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,491 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.25%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 285 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 82.4% on time across 324 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. 324 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 AEX to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.25% 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. 307 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.