Carrier route record

OODFW→AUS

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Austin

Flights: 354
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on DFW to AUS sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 354 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 688 at 78.5% on time.

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

On time

74.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.26%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

67.7%

Every carrier on DFW to AUS, 4,741 flights

These figures cover 354 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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 AUS

SkyWest flew 354 of the 4,741 flights on DFW to AUS, about 7% of it. Its 74.8% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.5% to American at 64.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 78.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,591 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to AUS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	688	78.5%	49 min	3.92%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	108	75.0%	80 min	7.41%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	354	74.8%	68 min	2.26%	C
American Airlines	3,591	64.7%	74 min	3.54%	D−

Envoy Air cancels 3.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 18 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am204 flights79.1%
8am–11am25 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm41 flights61.5%
5pm–8pm84 flights69.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 79.1% of the time, against 61.5% for the afternoon window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 204 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to AUS through the year

Jul–Sep 2025118 flights72.4%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights67.3%
Jan–Mar 202695 flights80.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.4%

Scale runs 60% to 85%. 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 74.8% on time across 354 flights.

SkyWest on DFW to AUS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 89 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.0%. 20 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 62% of the 5,936 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.

Carrier
62%
Extreme weather
17%
National Airspace System
14%
Late-arriving aircraft
7%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,936 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, 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 3,705 of the 5,936 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.26% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

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. 10.4% 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 190 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 64.2% on time across 354 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 354 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 AUS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 354 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 74.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 345 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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