Carrier route record

OODEN→HDN

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Hayden

Flights: 215
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 15%
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 HDN 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 45 minutes on average. That rests on 215 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 439 at 72.5% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DEN to HDN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 214 completed flights

Avg delay

45 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

72.9%

Every carrier on DEN to HDN, 1,434 flights

These figures cover 215 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 HDN

SkyWest flew 215 of the 1,434 flights on DEN to HDN, about 15% of it. Its 77.6% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 77.6% to United at 71.9%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DEN to HDN
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	215	77.6%	45 min	0.00%	B+
Southwest Airlines	439	72.5%	69 min	0.46%	C+
United Airlines	780	71.9%	76 min	0.64%	C+

No carrier stands out. Southwest tops the table at 72.5%, half a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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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 215 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm126 flights77.8%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm89 flights77.3%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 77.8% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.

Across the year

SkyWest on DEN to HDN through the year

Jul–Sep 202554 flights77.8%
Oct–Dec 202559 flights81.0%
Apr–Jun 202641 flights75.6%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights75.4%

Scale runs 65% to 85%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 77.6% on time across 215 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on DEN to HDN held fairly steady: 77.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 75.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 75.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.3% on time and Thursday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 27 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on DEN to HDN runs when it is late

SkyWest on DEN to HDN often beats the schedule: 64 of 214 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 48 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.

15+ min early64 flights29.9%
Within 15 min102 flights47.7%
15–29 min late19 flights8.9%
30–59 min late21 flights9.8%
1–2 hours late5 flights2.3%
2+ hours late3 flights1.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 214 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

6 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 16 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 HDN.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to HDN

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 September 2025, 2 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across September, July, August and June, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on DEN to HDN in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 September 2025	2 hours 48 minutes	National Airspace System
30 July 2026	2 hours 44 minutes	Carrier
15 August 2026	2 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
1 June 2026	1 hour 56 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
22 September 2025	1 hour 41 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 55% of the 2,159 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
55%
National Airspace System
28%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,178 of the 2,159 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,159 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 3.7% 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 141 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 73.0% on time across 216 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 215 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 HDN

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 215 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 77.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 214 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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