Carrier route record
OOBFL→PHX
SkyWest Airlines · Bakersfield to Phoenix
- Flights
- 930
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 70%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on BFL to PHX lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. 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 rests on 930 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BFL to PHX record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 910 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.04%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.4%
Every carrier on BFL to PHX, 1,330 flights
These figures cover 930 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% 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 BFL to PHX
SkyWest flew 930 of the 1,330 flights on BFL to PHX, most of the route. Its 83.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.0% to SkyWest at 83.2%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 46 | 87.0% | 31 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 354 | 83.4% | 76 min | 1.13% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 930 | 83.2% | 94 min | 2.04% | B |
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am206 flights91.4%
- 8am–11am206 flights85.4%
- 11am–2pm187 flights82.8%
- 2pm–5pm188 flights78.4%
- 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
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 71.1%. August is the strongest month at 91.9%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 21 points. March was the busiest month here, with 122 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 86.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.2%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on BFL to PHX runs when it is late
SkyWest on BFL to PHX often beats the schedule: 328 of 910 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on BFL to PHX is late it tends to be very late: 88 of its 153 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 34 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early328 flights36.0%
- Within 15 min429 flights47.1%
- 15–29 min late36 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late29 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late54 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late34 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 910 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 154 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 16 made it up before arrival. Only 15 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on BFL to PHX
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 May 2026, 6 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2026 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 April 2026 | 5 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 March 2026 | 5 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 January 2026 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 March 2026 | 5 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 14,000 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
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 14,343 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,000 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.04% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.11%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.7% 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.
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 80.6% on time across 930 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. 930 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. 930 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 83.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 910 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BFL to PHX, every carrier
- SkyWest on PHX to BFL, the return leg
- American Airlines on BFL to PHX83.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) 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.