Carrier route record

OODFW→JAN

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson

Flights: 156
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 8%
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 JAN sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 156 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 694 at 79.9% on time.

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

On time

75.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 148 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.13%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.5%

Every carrier on DFW to JAN, 1,926 flights

These figures cover 156 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 JAN

SkyWest flew 156 of the 1,926 flights on DFW to JAN, about 8% of it. Its 75.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.9% to PSA at 72.6%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 79.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 72.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,076 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to JAN
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	694	79.9%	55 min	2.74%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	156	75.0%	63 min	5.13%	B−
PSA Airlines	1,076	72.6%	81 min	3.16%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 3.2% 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 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 156 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am32 flights—
11am–2pm27 flights—
2pm–5pm37 flights71.4%
5pm–8pm58 flights72.7%
8pm–5am2 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 72.7% on time. The full set of windows spans about a point.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to JAN through the year

Jul–Sep 202521 flights—
Oct–Dec 202566 flights67.2%
Jan–Mar 202669 flights79.7%

Scale runs 60% 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 75.0% on time across 156 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on DFW to JAN logged 21 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 66 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 69 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 80.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%. 14 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 54% of the 2,314 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.

Carrier
54%
Extreme weather
22%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,314 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 1,244 of the 2,314 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 5.13%, 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

8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 408 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 76.5% on time across 157 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 156 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 JAN

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.13% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 148 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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