Carrier route record
OODFW→BHM
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Birmingham
- Flights
- 214
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- 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 BHM lands a B−, 2 points 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 an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 214 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 740 at 80.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to BHM from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 207 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.27%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on DFW to BHM, 2,202 flights
These figures cover 214 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% 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 BHM
SkyWest flew 214 of the 2,202 flights on DFW to BHM, about 10% of it. Its 79.2% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.4% to American at 46.2%. 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 80.4% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 71.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,137 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 740 | 80.4% | 65 min | 1.89% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 214 | 79.2% | 93 min | 3.27% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,137 | 71.5% | 91 min | 3.52% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 111 | 46.2% | 102 min | 4.50% | F− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.5% 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 9 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am31 flights93.5%
- 8am–11am27 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm18 flights—
- 8pm–5am138 flights75.9%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.5% of the time, against 75.9% for the overnight 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 138 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to BHM through the year
- Jul–Sep 202554 flights92.3%
- Oct–Dec 202550 flights74.0%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights78.4%
- Apr–Jun 202657 flights72.2%
Scale runs 65% 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 79.2% on time across 214 flights.
SkyWest on DFW to BHM did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 72.2%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 54 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 74.2%. 10 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 65% of the 3,994 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.
- 65%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, 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 2,583 of the 3,994 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,994 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.27%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.7% 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.
The 597 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.1% on time across 214 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 214 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 BHM
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.27% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 207 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to BHM, every carrier
- SkyWest on BHM to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to BHM80.4%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to BHM71.5%
- American Airlines on DFW to BHM46.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.