Carrier route record
OODEN→FAR
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Fargo
- Flights
- 879
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- 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 FAR lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 879 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DEN to FAR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 866 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.14%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.7%
Every carrier on DEN to FAR, 1,415 flights
These figures cover 879 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 FAR
SkyWest flew 879 of the 1,415 flights on DEN to FAR, most of the route. Its 80.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 87.3% to United at 74.3%. Two 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 | 173 | 87.3% | 65 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 879 | 80.5% | 74 min | 1.14% | B |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 363 | 74.3% | 72 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to FAR
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am361 flights80.6%
- 11am–2pm362 flights86.8%
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am155 flights65.4%
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 86.8% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 65.4%. 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 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to FAR through the year
January is the weak month at 66.7% on time, against 91.9% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 92 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 76.4%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to FAR runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to FAR often beats the schedule: 247 of 866 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 169 late arrivals split 59 under half an hour, 42 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 68 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early247 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min450 flights52.0%
- 15–29 min late59 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late42 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late42 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late26 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 866 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 144 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 44 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 FAR.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to FAR
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 January 2026, 12 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2026 | 12 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 March 2026 | 7 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 7 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 6 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,573 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,636 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.14% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 627 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.0% on time across 878 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 879 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 FAR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 879 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 80.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 866 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to FAR, every carrier
- SkyWest on FAR to DEN, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DEN to FAR87.3%
- United Airlines on DEN to FAR74.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- 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.