Carrier route record
OODEN→ABQ
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Albuquerque
- Flights
- 908
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 28%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DEN to ABQ earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 908 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 845 at 76.8% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to ABQ record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 71 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 903 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.44%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.3%
Every carrier on DEN to ABQ, 3,218 flights
These figures cover 908 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to ABQ
SkyWest flew 908 of the 3,218 flights on DEN to ABQ, about 28% of it. Its 84.4% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.4% to Southwest at 75.4%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: about a point 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 908 | 84.4% | 67 min | 0.44% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 845 | 76.8% | 63 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,465 | 75.4% | 57 min | 0.41% | B+ |
No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 76.8%, about a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to ABQ
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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 19 points, against about a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am340 flights92.0%
- 11am–2pm12 flights—
- 2pm–5pm318 flights81.9%
- 5pm–8pm84 flights81.0%
- 8pm–5am154 flights73.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.0% of the time, against 73.4% for the overnight window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 340 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to ABQ through the year
July is the worst month at 74.7% on time, 20 points below November, the best at 94.3%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 105 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.7% on time and Thursday the weakest at 78.0%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to ABQ runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to ABQ often beats the schedule: 295 of 903 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 141 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 45 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 46 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early295 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min467 flights51.7%
- 15–29 min late50 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late45 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late20 flights2.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 903 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 129 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 38 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to ABQ
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 10 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, August, December and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 10 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 9 hours 54 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 August 2026 | 6 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 December 2025 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 February 2026 | 3 hours 15 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 9,472 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,472 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,783 of the 9,472 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.44%, 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
5.1% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 349 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 86.2% on time across 908 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. 908 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 DEN to ABQ
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 908 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 84.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 903 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to ABQ, every carrier
- SkyWest on ABQ to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to ABQ76.8%
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to ABQ75.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.