Carrier route record

OODEN→ICT

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Wichita

Flights: 1,263
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 58%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on DEN to ICT 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,263 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 372 at 73.2% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to ICT record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,253 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.63%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.0%

Every carrier on DEN to ICT, 2,194 flights

These figures cover 1,263 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to ICT

SkyWest flew 1,263 of the 2,194 flights on DEN to ICT, most of the route. Its 86.4% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.4% to Southwest at 62.0%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 73.2% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 62.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 559 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DEN to ICT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	1,263	86.4%	62 min	0.63%	A+
United Airlines	372	73.2%	65 min	0.27%	C+
Southwest Airlines	559	62.0%	63 min	1.07%	D

United leads Southwest by 11 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Flight by flight

SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to ICT

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 11 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am138 flights92.0%
8am–11am361 flights91.4%
11am–2pm85 flights83.1%
2pm–5pm320 flights84.9%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am359 flights81.5%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.0% of the time, against 81.5% for the overnight window. That is 11 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 361 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DEN to ICT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.January best, July worst

July is the worst month at 78.9% on time, 15 points below January, the best at 93.4%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 137 flights.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 90.3% on time and Monday the weakest at 81.2%. 9 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 11,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
10%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 4,434 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,568 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.0% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.63%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is 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 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 420 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 80.8% on time across 1,260 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

The sample behind these figures is 1,263 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 ICT

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 93.4% on time and July 78.9%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,253 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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