Carrier route record
OODEN→MAF
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Midland
- Flights
- 1,222
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- 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 MAF lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly 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 1,222 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to MAF record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 45 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,208 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.3%
Every carrier on DEN to MAF, 1,497 flights
These figures cover 1,222 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to MAF
SkyWest flew 1,222 of the 1,497 flights on DEN to MAF, most of the route. Its 81.8% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.8% to Southwest at 57.4%. 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) | 1,222 | 81.8% | 75 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 275 | 57.4% | 64 min | 1.82% | D |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to MAF
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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am486 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm325 flights87.5%
- 2pm–5pm85 flights76.5%
- 5pm–8pm303 flights74.6%
- 8pm–5am23 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 87.5% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 74.6%. 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 486 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to MAF through the year
August is the worst month at 71.6% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 90.4%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 126 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 77.0%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to MAF runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to MAF often beats the schedule: 397 of 1,208 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 220 late arrivals split 57 under half an hour, 75 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 88 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early397 flights32.9%
- Within 15 min591 flights48.9%
- 15–29 min late57 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late75 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late54 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late34 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,208 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 194 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 53 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to MAF
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 August 2026, 17 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2026 | 17 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 12 hours 32 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 December 2025 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 5 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 August 2026 | 4 hours 54 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 16,000 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 16,385 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,712 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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
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.
The 563 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 81.4% on time across 1,225 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,222 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 MAF
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 90.4% on time and August 71.6%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,208 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to MAF, every carrier
- SkyWest on MAF to DEN, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to MAF57.4%
- 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.