Carrier route record

OODFW→HOU

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston

Flights: 380
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
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 HOU sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 380 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,061 at 81.1% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to HOU from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

73.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.9%

Every carrier on DFW to HOU, 2,048 flights

These figures cover 380 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% 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 HOU

SkyWest flew 380 of the 2,048 flights on DFW to HOU, about 19% of it. Its 73.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.1% to PSA at 71.4%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 81.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 71.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 607 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to HOU
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,061	81.1%	53 min	2.83%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	380	73.7%	62 min	5.00%	C−
PSA Airlines	607	71.4%	96 min	5.11%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 31 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am75 flights92.8%
8am–11am44 flights86.4%
11am–2pm33 flights—
2pm–5pm135 flights62.0%
5pm–8pm93 flights65.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.8% of the time, against 62.0% for the afternoon window. That is 31 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 135 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to HOU through the year

Jul–Sep 2025116 flights65.1%
Oct–Dec 2025102 flights77.1%
Jan–Mar 202620 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026142 flights76.9%

Scale runs 55% 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 73.7% on time across 380 flights.

SkyWest on DFW to HOU did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.1%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 127 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 87.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.7%. 25 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 5,821 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
19%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%

Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,821 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, 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 2,337 of the 5,821 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 5.00%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 10.6% 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 247 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.6% on time across 380 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 380 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 HOU

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 358 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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