Carrier route record
OODEN→OMA
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Omaha
- Flights
- 424
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 424 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,285 at 78.1% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to OMA record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 111 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 421 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on DEN to OMA, 3,326 flights
These figures cover 424 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DEN to OMA
SkyWest flew 424 of the 3,326 flights on DEN to OMA, about 13% of it. Its 88.4% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 88.4% to Frontier at 69.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 424 | 88.4% | 56 min | 0.71% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 1,285 | 78.1% | 67 min | 0.23% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,385 | 73.6% | 51 min | 0.36% | C+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 232 | 69.7% | 84 min | 0.00% | C+ |
No carrier stands out. United tops the table at 78.1%, 5 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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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 15 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am8 flights—
- 8am–11am192 flights92.2%
- 11am–2pm3 flights—
- 2pm–5pm72 flights77.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am149 flights87.8%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.2% of the time, against 77.5% for the afternoon window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 192 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to OMA through the year
June is the worst month at 78.7% on time, 21 points below October, the best at 100.0%. 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 49 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 96.2% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 86.2%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to OMA runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to OMA often beats the schedule: 165 of 421 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 49 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early165 flights39.2%
- Within 15 min207 flights49.2%
- 15–29 min late14 flights3.3%
- 30–59 min late20 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 421 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 53 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 18 still arrived on time. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 6 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 6 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 December 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 January 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 1 hour 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 2,751 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,730 of the 2,751 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,751 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.71%, 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 3.6% 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 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.0% on time across 425 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 424 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. 424 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 88.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 421 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to OMA, every carrier
- SkyWest on OMA to DEN, the return leg
- United Airlines on DEN to OMA78.1%
- Southwest Airlines on DEN to OMA73.6%
- Frontier Airlines on DEN to OMA69.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.