Carrier route record

OOBHM→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Birmingham to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 214
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 10%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on BHM to DFW earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 214 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 742 at 79.9% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's BHM to DFW record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 209 completed flights

Avg delay

129 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.87%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.6%

Every carrier on BHM to DFW, 2,203 flights

These figures cover 214 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on BHM to DFW

SkyWest flew 214 of the 2,203 flights on BHM to DFW, about 10% of it. Its 87.1% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.1% to American at 69.5%. 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 BHM to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	214	87.1%	129 min	1.87%	A
Envoy Air	742	79.9%	68 min	1.75%	B
PSA Airlines	1,137	76.9%	124 min	4.05%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	110	69.5%	67 min	4.55%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 4.0% 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 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 214 flights.

5am–8am156 flights88.1%
8am–11am31 flights83.9%
11am–2pm27 flights—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 88.1% on time for the 5am–8am window against 83.9% for 8am–11am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 156 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on BHM to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202553 flights84.6%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights84.0%
Jan–Mar 202653 flights88.0%
Apr–Jun 202658 flights91.2%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 87.1% on time across 214 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on BHM to DFW held fairly steady: 84.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 97.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.3%. 24 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 70% of the 3,490 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
70%
Extreme weather
12%
Late-arriving aircraft
10%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,490 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 2,441 of the 3,490 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.87% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.47%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.2 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 597 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.2% on time across 214 flights, 8 points below 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 214 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 BHM to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 214 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 87.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 209 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.

Key figures