Carrier route record
OODEN→ICT
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Wichita
- Flights
- 1,300
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 58%
- 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 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,300 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 372 at 75.6% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to ICT record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,289 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.69%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.7%
Every carrier on DEN to ICT, 2,231 flights
These figures cover 1,300 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 ICT
SkyWest flew 1,300 of the 2,231 flights on DEN to ICT, most of the route. Its 85.3% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.3% to Southwest at 61.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 75.6% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 61.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 559 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,300 | 85.3% | 65 min | 0.69% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 372 | 75.6% | 65 min | 0.54% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 559 | 61.5% | 60 min | 0.72% | D+ |
The spread between United and Southwest is 14 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 14 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to ICT
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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 11 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am133 flights90.2%
- 8am–11am361 flights89.1%
- 11am–2pm57 flights89.1%
- 2pm–5pm391 flights84.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am358 flights79.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 79.7% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 391 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to ICT through the year
August is the worst month at 76.4% on time, 17 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. August was the busiest month here, with 141 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 80.9%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to ICT runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to ICT often beats the schedule: 380 of 1,289 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 189 late arrivals split 66 under half an hour, 61 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 62 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early380 flights29.5%
- Within 15 min720 flights55.9%
- 15–29 min late66 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late61 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late27 flights2.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,289 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 184 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 37 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to ICT
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 March 2026, 14 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2026 | 14 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 June 2026 | 10 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 August 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 August 2026 | 3 hours 29 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 June 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,169 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 12,189 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 90.2% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.69%, below the national 1.89% 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 4.8% 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 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 80.4% on time across 1,297 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,300 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 August 76.4%, a swing of 17 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,289 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to ICT, every carrier
- SkyWest on ICT to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to ICT75.6%
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to ICT61.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.