Carrier route record

OODEN→OMA

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Omaha

Flights: 385
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on DEN to OMA earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 385 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,287 at 76.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to OMA record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 382 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.78%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.8%

Every carrier on DEN to OMA, 3,289 flights

These figures cover 385 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 OMA

SkyWest flew 385 of the 3,289 flights on DEN to OMA, about 12% of it. Its 89.0% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 89.0% to Frontier at 70.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DEN to OMA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	385	89.0%	60 min	0.78%	A+
United Airlines	1,287	76.5%	64 min	0.31%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,404	72.5%	53 min	0.43%	C+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	213	70.3%	72 min	0.00%	C+

No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 76.5%, 4 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

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 385 flights.

5am–8am8 flights—
8am–11am197 flights92.3%
11am–2pm3 flights—
2pm–5pm28 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am149 flights87.8%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 92.3% on time for the 8am–11am window against 87.8% for 8pm–5am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 197 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DEN to OMA through the year

Jul–Sep 202584 flights94.0%
Oct–Dec 2025119 flights91.6%
Jan–Mar 202671 flights87.0%
Apr–Jun 2026111 flights83.8%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 89.0% on time across 385 flights.

SkyWest on DEN to OMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.8%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 96 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 81.8%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,502 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 1,471 of the 2,502 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,502 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.78%, 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 3.9% 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 472 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 89.5% on time across 386 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 385 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 OMA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 385 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 89.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 382 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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