Carrier route record
OODEN→BFL
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Bakersfield
- Flights
- 628
- 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 DEN to BFL 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 628 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to BFL record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 624 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.16%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.9%
Every carrier on DEN to BFL, 730 flights
These figures cover 628 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 DEN to BFL
SkyWest flew 628 of the 730 flights on DEN to BFL, most of the route. Its 83.0% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 83.0% to United at 53.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 628 | 83.0% | 64 min | 0.16% | B+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 102 | 53.0% | 86 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to BFL
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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 628 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm365 flights81.4%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm261 flights85.6%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 85.6% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to BFL through the year
June is the worst month at 63.3% on time, 31 points below May, the best at 94.2%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 63 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 74.7%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to BFL runs when it is late
The 106 late arrivals split 52 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early143 flights22.9%
- Within 15 min375 flights60.1%
- 15–29 min late52 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late24 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late10 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 624 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 80 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 26 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 52 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at BFL.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to BFL
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 January 2026, 16 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, May, March and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2026 | 16 hours 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 May 2026 | 11 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 March 2026 | 4 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 December 2025 | 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 6,742 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 4.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,742 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,697 of the 6,742 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.16%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 85.2% on time across 627 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. 628 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 BFL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 628 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 83.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 624 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to BFL, every carrier
- SkyWest on BFL to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to BFL53.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.