Carrier route record
OODFW→COS
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado Springs
- Flights
- 610
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 32%
- 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 COS sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 610 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on DFW to COS runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 52 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 588 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.44%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.3%
Every carrier on DFW to COS, 1,934 flights
These figures cover 610 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 COS
SkyWest flew 610 of the 1,934 flights on DFW to COS, about 32% of it. Its 72.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 87.6% to American at 64.8%. 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 | 254 | 87.6% | 47 min | 1.57% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 610 | 72.4% | 78 min | 3.44% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,070 | 64.8% | 69 min | 3.36% | D− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DFW to COS
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 24 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–11am70 flights87.7%
- 11am–2pm138 flights87.4%
- 2pm–5pm38 flights63.9%
- 5pm–8pm363 flights65.0%
- 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 87.7% of the time, against 63.9% for the afternoon window. That is 24 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
November is the best month on the calendar at 78.4% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. June was the busiest month here, with 87 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 65.5%. 17 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 52% of the 13,000 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,687 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 6,623 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.44%, 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. 11.7% 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 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. 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 80.3% on time across 609 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. 610 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.44% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 588 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 COS87.6%
- American Airlines on DFW to COS64.8%
- 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.