Carrier route record
OODEN→XNA
SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Bentonville
- Flights
- 826
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DEN to XNA 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 826 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DEN to XNA 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 820 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.73%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.0%
Every carrier on DEN to XNA, 1,346 flights
These figures cover 826 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 XNA
SkyWest flew 826 of the 1,346 flights on DEN to XNA, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.5% to United at 75.9%. 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) | 826 | 84.5% | 61 min | 0.73% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 150 | 83.3% | 54 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 370 | 75.9% | 74 min | 0.27% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DEN to XNA
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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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am359 flights85.7%
- 11am–2pm363 flights87.8%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am103 flights68.6%
Scale runs 60% 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 87.8% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 68.6%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DEN to XNA through the year
June is the worst month at 74.7% on time, 22 points below April, the best at 96.7%. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Thursday the weakest at 82.2%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DEN to XNA runs when it is late
SkyWest on DEN to XNA often beats the schedule: 238 of 820 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 127 late arrivals split 45 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 45 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early238 flights29.0%
- Within 15 min455 flights55.5%
- 15–29 min late45 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late37 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late14 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 820 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
25 of 117 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 35 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DEN to XNA
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 6 hours 17 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across March, January, October, August and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 January 2026 | 5 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 October 2025 | 4 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 August 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 June 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
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 7,707 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,959 of the 7,707 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,707 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.73%, 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
5.5% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 616 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 81.7% on time across 825 flights, within 3 points 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. 826 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 XNA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 826 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. 820 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to XNA, every carrier
- SkyWest on XNA to DEN, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DEN to XNA83.3%
- United Airlines on DEN to XNA75.9%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) 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.