Carrier route record
OODEN→MRY
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Monterey
- Flights
- 622
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- 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 MRY earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 622 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to MRY record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 619 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.5%
Every carrier on DEN to MRY, 726 flights
These figures cover 622 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 MRY
SkyWest flew 622 of the 726 flights on DEN to MRY, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.5% to United at 49.5%. 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) | 622 | 84.5% | 56 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 104 | 49.5% | 76 min | 0.96% | F+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to MRY
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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 622 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm362 flights85.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm260 flights83.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 85.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to MRY through the year
December is the weak month at 72.1% on time, against 89.1% in February. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.7%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to MRY runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to MRY often beats the schedule: 229 of 619 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 96 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early229 flights37.0%
- Within 15 min294 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late31 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late36 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late10 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 619 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 93 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 27 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to MRY
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 March 2026, 4 hours 34 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 December 2025 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 January 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 5,374 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,265 of the 5,374 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,374 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 4.7% 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.
The 959 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 92.9% on time across 626 flights, 8 points above 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 622 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 MRY
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 622 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 84.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 619 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.