Carrier route record
OODFW→GCK
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Garden City
- Flights
- 397
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 55%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to GCK sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 397 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to GCK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 380 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.78%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.4%
Every carrier on DFW to GCK, 727 flights
These figures cover 397 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 GCK
SkyWest flew 397 of the 727 flights on DFW to GCK, most of the route. Its 75.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 75.8% to Envoy at 75.0%. 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) | 397 | 75.8% | 76 min | 3.78% | B− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 330 | 75.0% | 65 min | 1.21% | B |
Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 397 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm198 flights77.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm3 flights—
- 8pm–5am196 flights73.8%
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 77.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to GCK through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025119 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026178 flights73.4%
- Apr–Jun 2026100 flights76.0%
Scale runs 65% 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 75.8% on time across 397 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on DFW to GCK held fairly steady: 79.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 76.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.6%. 22 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 43% of the 6,970 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.
- 43%Carrier
- 29%Extreme weather
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 29% 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 4.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,970 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 2,971 of the 6,970 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.78%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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.
At 404 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.4% on time across 397 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 397 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 GCK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.78% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 380 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.