Carrier route record

OOAUS→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on AUS to DFW draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.3 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 354 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 688 at 77.2% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on AUS to DFW runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 134 extra late arrivals.

On time

64.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights

Avg delay

136 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

73.8%

Every carrier on AUS to DFW, 4,742 flights

These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 24.0% 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 AUS to DFW

SkyWest flew 354 of the 4,742 flights on AUS to DFW, about 7% of it. Its 64.2% on time is 10 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 77.2% to SkyWest at 64.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on AUS to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	688	77.2%	103 min	3.92%	B−
American Airlines	3,591	74.3%	113 min	3.76%	C−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	108	66.7%	78 min	8.33%	C−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	354	64.2%	136 min	3.39%	D−

Envoy Air cancels 3.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 29 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am43 flights85.7%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm44 flights83.7%
5pm–8pm265 flights57.1%
8pm–5am2 flights—

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.1% on time, against 85.7% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 265 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on AUS to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025118 flights55.4%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights55.1%
Jan–Mar 202695 flights64.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.8%

Scale runs 45% to 85%. 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 64.2% on time across 354 flights.

SkyWest on AUS to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 55.1%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 89 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 57.8%. 18 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 43% of the 17,000 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.

Carrier
43%
Extreme weather
22%
Late-arriving aircraft
21%
National Airspace System
13%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 16,623 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 7,086 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.39%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 24.0% 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 190 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.8% on time across 354 flights, 11 points above 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 354 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 AUS to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.3 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 341 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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