Carrier route record
OODFW→AEX
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Alexandria
- Flights
- 324
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 31%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to AEX lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to AEX record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.25%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
84.1%
Every carrier on DFW to AEX, 1,045 flights
These figures cover 324 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 DFW to AEX
SkyWest flew 324 of the 1,045 flights on DFW to AEX, about 31% of it. Its 82.4% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.8% to SkyWest at 82.4%.
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 | 721 | 84.8% | 58 min | 3.74% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 324 | 82.4% | 75 min | 5.25% | B− |
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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am65 flights85.9%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm123 flights74.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am136 flights88.2%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 88.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 14 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to AEX through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025243 flights79.6%
- Oct–Dec 202542 flights85.4%
- Apr–Jun 202639 flights97.2%
Scale runs 70% 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 82.4% on time across 324 flights.
SkyWest on DFW to AEX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 97.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 79.6%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 108 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 91.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 72.7%. 18 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 54% of the 4,063 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.
- 54%Carrier
- 20%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,063 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 2,181 of the 4,063 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.25%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 285 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 80.1% on time across 324 flights, within 2 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. 324 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 AEX
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.25% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 307 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.