Carrier route record
OODFW→COS
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado Springs
- Flights
- 697
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 36%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to COS 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 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 697 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to COS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 679 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.44%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.5%
Every carrier on DFW to COS, 1,934 flights
These figures cover 697 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% 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 COS
SkyWest flew 697 of the 1,934 flights on DFW to COS, about 36% of it. Its 73.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 72.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 89.3% to American at 68.3%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 200 | 89.3% | 38 min | 1.50% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 697 | 73.9% | 74 min | 2.44% | C |
| American Airlines | 1,037 | 68.3% | 67 min | 2.41% | C |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DFW to COS
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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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am97 flights90.2%
- 11am–2pm137 flights88.9%
- 2pm–5pm99 flights69.8%
- 5pm–8pm363 flights65.4%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 65.4% for the evening window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to COS through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 63.4%. August is the strongest month at 80.4%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 17 points. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 68.4%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to COS runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to COS often beats the schedule: 187 of 679 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 177 late arrivals split 46 under half an hour, 55 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 76 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early187 flights27.5%
- Within 15 min315 flights46.4%
- 15–29 min late46 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late55 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late40 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late36 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 679 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 177 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 26 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to COS
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 December 2025, 5 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 December 2025 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 16 March 2026 | 4 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 June 2026 | 4 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 13,045 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,468 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.44% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.14%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 592 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.9% on time across 696 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 697 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 COS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 697 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 73.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 679 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to COS, every carrier
- SkyWest on COS to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to COS89.3%
- American Airlines on DFW to COS68.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.