Carrier route record
OODFW→ACT
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Waco
- Flights
- 457
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to ACT lands a B−, 4 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 457 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to ACT record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 436 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.60%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.0%
Every carrier on DFW to ACT, 1,072 flights
These figures cover 457 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DFW to ACT
SkyWest flew 457 of the 1,072 flights on DFW to ACT, about 43% of it. Its 81.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to SkyWest at 81.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 615 | 82.2% | 58 min | 3.09% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 457 | 81.7% | 99 min | 4.60% | B− |
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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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am165 flights88.3%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm162 flights77.1%
- 5pm–8pm31 flights—
- 8pm–5am98 flights79.3%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 88.3% of the time, against 77.1% for the afternoon window. That is 11 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 165 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to ACT through the year
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 70.0%. August is the strongest month at 93.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.0%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to ACT runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to ACT often beats the schedule: 134 of 436 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 80 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early134 flights30.7%
- Within 15 min222 flights50.9%
- 15–29 min late19 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late25 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late17 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 436 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 85 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to ACT
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 9 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 9 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 9 hours 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 3 December 2025 | 9 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 January 2026 | 8 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 6 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 7,913 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,913 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,129 of the 7,913 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 4.60%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 90 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 85.5% on time across 457 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 457 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 DFW to ACT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.60% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 436 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.