Carrier route record
OODEN→LBB
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Lubbock
- Flights
- 700
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 71%
- 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 LBB sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 700 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DEN to LBB from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 686 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.4%
Every carrier on DEN to LBB, 980 flights
These figures cover 700 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to LBB
SkyWest flew 700 of the 980 flights on DEN to LBB, most of the route. Its 75.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 75.8% to Southwest at 60.4%. One 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) | 700 | 75.8% | 101 min | 1.43% | B |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 280 | 60.4% | 70 min | 2.14% | D |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to LBB
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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am20 flights—
- 11am–2pm105 flights71.6%
- 2pm–5pm260 flights82.2%
- 5pm–8pm300 flights70.1%
- 8pm–5am15 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 82.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 70.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 300 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to LBB through the year
February is the weak month at 65.4% on time, against 91.4% in October. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 78 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 70.8%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to LBB runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to LBB often beats the schedule: 216 of 686 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 166 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 44 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 79 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early216 flights31.5%
- Within 15 min304 flights44.3%
- 15–29 min late43 flights6.3%
- 30–59 min late44 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late45 flights6.6%
- 2+ hours late34 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 686 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 160 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 28 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to LBB
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 January 2026, 17 hours 57 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January 2026 | 17 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 February 2026 | 17 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 October 2025 | 14 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 14 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 June 2026 | 14 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 16,782 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,709 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.57%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 456 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.8% on time across 701 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 700 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 LBB
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 700 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 75.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 686 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.