Carrier route record
OODEN→GJT
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Grand Junction
- Flights
- 1,550
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- 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 GJT lands a B, 4 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 1,550 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DEN to GJT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,520 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.87%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.9%
Every carrier on DEN to GJT, 2,282 flights
These figures cover 1,550 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 GJT
SkyWest flew 1,550 of the 2,282 flights on DEN to GJT, most of the route. Its 80.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 80.9% 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) | 1,550 | 80.9% | 70 min | 1.87% | B |
| United Airlines | 732 | 77.8% | 63 min | 0.14% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to GJT
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am124 flights89.4%
- 8am–11am357 flights87.7%
- 11am–2pm362 flights86.1%
- 2pm–5pm363 flights69.7%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am344 flights76.8%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.4% of the time, against 69.7% for the afternoon window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to GJT through the year
August is the worst month at 69.9% on time, 23 points below October, the best at 92.7%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 152 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 77.3%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to GJT runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to GJT often beats the schedule: 457 of 1,520 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 291 late arrivals split 88 under half an hour, 92 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 111 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early457 flights30.1%
- Within 15 min772 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late88 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late92 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late72 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late39 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,520 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
39 of 275 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 55 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to GJT
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 July 2026, 11 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as security. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2026 | 11 hours 52 minutes | Security |
| 16 January 2026 | 11 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 July 2026 | 10 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 July 2026 | 10 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 June 2026 | 10 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 20,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 4%Security
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 20,337 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,255 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.87% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.06%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.3% 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.
At 212 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.0% on time across 1,550 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,550 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on DEN to GJT
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. October runs 92.7% on time and August 69.9%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,520 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to GJT, every carrier
- SkyWest on GJT to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to GJT77.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.