Carrier route record
OOAUS→IND
SkyWest Airlines · Austin to Indianapolis
- Flights
- 552
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 41%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on AUS to IND lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. 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 rests on 552 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on AUS to IND from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 550 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on AUS to IND, 1,359 flights
These figures cover 552 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 AUS to IND
SkyWest flew 552 of the 1,359 flights on AUS to IND, about 41% of it. Its 80.9% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 80.9% to Southwest at 76.3%.
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) | 552 | 80.9% | 90 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 807 | 76.3% | 53 min | 0.62% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on AUS to IND
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 552 flights.
- 5am–8am135 flights85.2%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm75 flights84.0%
- 5pm–8pm250 flights76.6%
- 8pm–5am91 flights84.6%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.2% of the time, against 76.6% for the evening window. That is 9 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 250 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on AUS to IND through the year
Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 69.6%. January is the strongest month at 93.3%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. July was the busiest month here, with 85 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 70.6%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on AUS to IND runs when it is late
SkyWest on AUS to IND often beats the schedule: 167 of 550 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 105 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 50 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early167 flights30.4%
- Within 15 min278 flights50.5%
- 15–29 min late28 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late27 flights4.9%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late21 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 550 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 98 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on AUS to IND
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 April 2026, 12 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2026 | 12 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 August 2026 | 11 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 June 2026 | 10 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 August 2026 | 8 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 August 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 9,447 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,631 of the 9,447 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 9,447 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.36%, below the national 1.89% 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
9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 919 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.3% on time across 552 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 552 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 IND
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 552 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 80.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 550 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to IND, every carrier
- SkyWest on IND to AUS, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on AUS to IND76.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.