Carrier route record

OODFW→GJT

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Grand Junction

Flights: 334
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 32%
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 GJT lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly 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 334 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to GJT record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights

Avg delay

75 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.10%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

83.0%

Every carrier on DFW to GJT, 1,044 flights

These figures cover 334 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

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Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on DFW to GJT

SkyWest flew 334 of the 1,044 flights on DFW to GJT, about 32% of it. Its 81.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 83.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.6% to SkyWest at 81.7%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to GJT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	710	83.6%	43 min	1.13%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	334	81.7%	75 min	2.10%	B

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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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am—
8am–11am103 flights91.1%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm129 flights77.2%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am102 flights77.8%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.1% of the time, against 77.2% for the afternoon window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 129 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to GJT through the year

Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026123 flights77.8%
Jul–Sep 2026185 flights85.9%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 81.7% on time across 334 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on DFW to GJT logged 26 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 123 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 185 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 81.7% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 89.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.9%, a spread of 16 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on DFW to GJT runs when it is late

SkyWest on DFW to GJT often beats the schedule: 133 of 327 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.

15+ min early133 flights40.7%
Within 15 min134 flights41.0%
15–29 min late14 flights4.3%
30–59 min late21 flights6.4%
1–2 hours late15 flights4.6%
2+ hours late10 flights3.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 327 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

19 of 70 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to GJT

The latest arrival of the period was on 8 June 2026, 6 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as extreme weather.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on DFW to GJT in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
8 June 2026	6 hours 18 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
26 May 2026	3 hours 49 minutes	Extreme weather
13 July 2026	3 hours 24 minutes	Extreme weather
12 July 2026	3 hours 18 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
12 June 2026	2 hours 58 minutes	Extreme weather

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 4,523 reported delay minutes.

Extreme weather
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
Carrier
26%
National Airspace System
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 33% 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 5.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,523 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.1% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.6% 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 772 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 76.0% on time across 333 flights, 6 points below 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 334 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 GJT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 334 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 81.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 327 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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