Carrier route record
OODFW→DRO
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Durango
- Flights
- 1,177
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to DRO lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. 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 rests on 1,177 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to DRO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,146 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.38%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.7%
Every carrier on DFW to DRO, 1,351 flights
These figures cover 1,177 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 DRO
SkyWest flew 1,177 of the 1,351 flights on DFW to DRO, most of the route. Its 79.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 79.3% to American at 59.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,177 | 79.3% | 71 min | 2.38% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 174 | 59.8% | 92 min | 0.00% | D+ |
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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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am353 flights87.4%
- 11am–2pm115 flights89.3%
- 2pm–5pm362 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm128 flights65.1%
- 8pm–5am219 flights76.4%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 89.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 65.1%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to DRO through the year
Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 67.6%. August is the strongest month at 90.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 23 points. July was the busiest month here, with 158 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.6%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to DRO runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to DRO often beats the schedule: 483 of 1,146 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 237 late arrivals split 77 under half an hour, 63 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 97 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early483 flights42.1%
- Within 15 min426 flights37.2%
- 15–29 min late77 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late63 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late53 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late44 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,146 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
44 of 256 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to DRO
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 March 2026, 6 hours 29 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, January, July, December and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | 6 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 January 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 36 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 May 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
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 17,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
- 0%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 16,762 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,504 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 674 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 82.9% on time across 1,178 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,177 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on DFW to DRO
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. August runs 90.5% on time and September 67.6%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of September before you think about anything else. 1,146 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to DRO, every carrier
- SkyWest on DRO to DFW, the return leg
- American Airlines on DFW to DRO59.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.