Carrier route record

OODFW→AMA

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Amarillo

Flights: 283
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on DFW to AMA lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five 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 283 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to AMA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.12%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.3%

Every carrier on DFW to AMA, 2,371 flights

These figures cover 283 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on DFW to AMA

SkyWest flew 283 of the 2,371 flights on DFW to AMA, about 12% of it. Its 78.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.0% to American at 42.1%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to AMA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,970	84.0%	58 min	2.18%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	283	78.7%	75 min	2.12%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	118	42.1%	100 min	3.39%	F−

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 283 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am2 flights—
11am–2pm32 flights81.2%
2pm–5pm93 flights83.3%
5pm–8pm20 flights—
8pm–5am136 flights75.2%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 83.3% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 75.2%. 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 136 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to AMA through the year

Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025101 flights84.7%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights71.9%
Apr–Jun 2026120 flights76.1%

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 78.7% on time across 283 flights.

SkyWest on DFW to AMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 84.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 94 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 86.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 70.0%. 17 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 4,432 reported delay minutes.

Extreme weather
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
Carrier
26%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 37% 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 5.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,432 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.12% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 312 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.7% on time across 282 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. 283 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 AMA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 283 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 78.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 277 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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