Carrier route record
OODEN→CID
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Cedar Rapids
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- 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 CID lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 263 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DEN to CID from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 260 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.14%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.2%
Every carrier on DEN to CID, 1,155 flights
These figures cover 263 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 DEN to CID
SkyWest flew 263 of the 1,155 flights on DEN to CID, about 23% of it. Its 76.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 82.7% to SkyWest at 76.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 164 | 82.7% | 57 min | 1.22% | B |
| United Airlines | 728 | 79.3% | 80 min | 0.41% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 263 | 76.9% | 67 min | 1.14% | 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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm49 flights79.2%
- 2pm–5pm142 flights85.9%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am71 flights56.5%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 56.5% on time, against 85.9% for the 2pm–5pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 142 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to CID through the year
- Jul–Sep 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202543 flights88.1%
- Jan–Mar 20261 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202693 flights78.3%
- Jul–Sep 2026105 flights67.3%
Scale runs 60% 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 76.9% on time across 263 flights.
SkyWest on DEN to CID did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 88.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.3%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 88 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.6%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to CID runs when it is late
The 60 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 15 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.8%
- Within 15 min138 flights53.1%
- 15–29 min late24 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 260 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 CID.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to CID
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 10 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as national airspace system delay.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 10 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 7 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 1 June 2026 | 3 hours | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 8 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 4,027 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 39%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,558 minutes out of 4,027, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,027 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,830 of the 4,027 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.14% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% 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.
The 692 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 77.8% on time across 262 flights, within about a point 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. 263 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 CID
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 263 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 76.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 260 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to CID, every carrier
- SkyWest on CID to DEN, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DEN to CID82.7%
- United Airlines on DEN to CID79.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.