Carrier route record

OOBFL→PHX

SkyWest Airlines · Bakersfield to Phoenix

Flights: 822
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 64%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on BFL to PHX lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six 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 822 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BFL to PHX record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 803 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.31%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.2%

Every carrier on BFL to PHX, 1,289 flights

These figures cover 822 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% 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 BFL to PHX

SkyWest flew 822 of the 1,289 flights on BFL to PHX, most of the route. Its 82.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.8% to SkyWest at 82.6%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on BFL to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	117	88.8%	56 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlinesthin sample	350	82.7%	95 min	1.14%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	822	82.6%	96 min	2.31%	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 16 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–8am206 flights91.4%
8am–11am180 flights83.2%
11am–2pm128 flights82.8%
2pm–5pm165 flights77.2%
5pm–8pm143 flights75.4%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 75.4% for the evening window. That is 16 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 206 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on BFL to PHX through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.May best, November worst

May is the best month on the calendar at 90.6% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 122 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 75.4%. 11 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 13,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
16%
National Airspace System
9%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 13,499 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 5,643 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.31% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 10.3% 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 425 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 79.8% on time across 822 flights, within 3 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. 822 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 PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 822 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 82.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 803 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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