Carrier route record
OOBFL→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Bakersfield to Denver
- Flights
- 627
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on BFL to DEN 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 627 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BFL to DEN record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 621 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.32%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
86.4%
Every carrier on BFL to DEN, 728 flights
These figures cover 627 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on BFL to DEN
SkyWest flew 627 of the 728 flights on BFL to DEN, most of the route. Its 85.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 86.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 94.0% to SkyWest at 85.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 101 | 94.0% | 124 min | 0.99% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 627 | 85.2% | 79 min | 0.32% | A+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on BFL to DEN
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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–8am263 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm363 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 80.2% on time against 92.3% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on BFL to DEN through the year
July is the worst month at 63.3% on time, 32 points below October, the best at 95.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 78.2%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on BFL to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on BFL to DEN often beats the schedule: 246 of 621 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 92 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early246 flights39.6%
- Within 15 min283 flights45.6%
- 15–29 min late26 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late24 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late13 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 621 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
25 of 100 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on BFL to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 December 2025, 9 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, January, May, March and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 December 2025 | 9 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 January 2026 | 8 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 May 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
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 7,246 reported delay minutes.
- 33%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,246 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.3% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.32%, 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
6.8% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 845 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 runs 83.0% on time across 628 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. 627 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 BFL to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 627 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 85.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 621 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BFL to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to BFL, the return leg
- United Airlines on BFL to DEN94.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.