Carrier route record
OODEN→EGE
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Eagle
- Flights
- 217
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- 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 EGE earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 217 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to EGE record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 215 completed flights
Avg delay
49 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.92%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.2%
Every carrier on DEN to EGE, 1,171 flights
These figures cover 217 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to EGE
SkyWest flew 217 of the 1,171 flights on DEN to EGE, about 19% of it. Its 85.6% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.6% to United at 77.8%.
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)thin sample | 217 | 85.6% | 49 min | 0.92% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 954 | 77.8% | 62 min | 0.21% | 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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am56 flights79.6%
- 11am–2pm136 flights90.4%
- 2pm–5pm25 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.4% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 79.6%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 136 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to EGE through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202570 flights90.0%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights78.1%
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights88.1%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.6% on time across 217 flights.
SkyWest on DEN to EGE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 78.1%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 54 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 93.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 67.6%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to EGE runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to EGE often beats the schedule: 63 of 215 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 6 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights29.3%
- Within 15 min121 flights56.3%
- 15–29 min late13 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late12 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.9%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 215 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to EGE
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 February 2026, 2 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 February 2026 | 2 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 March 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 21 February 2026 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 55% of the 1,512 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 824 of the 1,512 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,512 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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.
At 120 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.4% on time across 217 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 217 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 217 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 85.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 215 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to EGE, every carrier
- SkyWest on EGE to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to EGE77.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
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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.