Carrier route record
OODEN→FAT
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Fresno
- Flights
- 748
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 52%
- 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 FAT earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 748 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to FAT record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 105 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 748 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on DEN to FAT, 1,452 flights
These figures cover 748 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 FAT
SkyWest flew 748 of the 1,452 flights on DEN to FAT, most of the route. Its 87.8% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.8% to United at 70.3%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 748 | 87.8% | 63 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 360 | 74.1% | 38 min | 0.28% | C+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 344 | 70.3% | 60 min | 0.29% | C+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to FAT
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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 748 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm364 flights90.4%
- 2pm–5pm363 flights86.2%
- 5pm–8pm20 flights—
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 90.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to FAT through the year
December is the weak month at 73.7% on time, against 98.3% in November. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 76 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 91.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 86.0%, a spread of 5 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to FAT runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to FAT often beats the schedule: 245 of 748 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 91 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early245 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min412 flights55.1%
- 15–29 min late31 flights4.1%
- 30–59 min late34 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late12 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 748 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 92 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 20 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to FAT
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 7 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 7 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 5 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 4 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 4 hours 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 36 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 5,752 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,423 of the 5,752 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,752 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 3.5% 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 844 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 91.1% on time across 746 flights, 3 points above 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 748 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 FAT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 748 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 87.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 748 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to FAT, every carrier
- SkyWest on FAT to DEN, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to FAT74.1%
- United Airlines on DEN to FAT70.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.