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Carrier route record

OODFW→JAN

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson

Flights
149
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
8%
Carriers
3
C−GRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 149 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 654 at 80.2% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.

Key figures

On time

73.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 142 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.70%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.6%

Every carrier on DFW to JAN, 1,905 flights

These figures cover 149 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 JAN

SkyWest flew 149 of the 1,905 flights on DFW to JAN, about 8% of it. Its 73.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.2% to PSA at 73.1%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 80.2% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,102 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to JAN
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Air65480.2%59 min1.99%B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample14973.9%63 min4.70%C−
PSA Airlines1,10273.1%84 min2.81%C

Envoy leads PSA by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

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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 17 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.

  • 5am–8am—
  • 8am–11am38 flights85.7%
  • 11am–2pm27 flights—
  • 2pm–5pm37 flights71.4%
  • 5pm–8pm47 flights68.9%
  • 8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 85.7% of the time, against 68.9% for the evening window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 47 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to JAN through the year

  • Jul–Sep 20258 flights—
  • Oct–Dec 202566 flights67.2%
  • Jan–Mar 202669 flights79.7%
  • Jul–Sep 20266 flights—

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 73.9% on time across 149 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on DFW to JAN logged 8 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 66 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 69 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 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 73.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

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

The 37 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early33 flights23.2%
  • Within 15 min72 flights50.7%
  • 15–29 min late13 flights9.2%
  • 30–59 min late12 flights8.5%
  • 1–2 hours late8 flights5.6%
  • 2+ hours late4 flights2.8%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 142 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to JAN

The latest arrival of the period was on 19 January 2026, 5 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on DFW to JAN in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
19 January 20265 hours 2 minutesExtreme weather
19 October 20252 hours 55 minutesCarrier
17 January 20262 hours 44 minutesCarrier
20 December 20252 hours 19 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
10 January 20261 hour 56 minutesCarrier

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,319 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

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

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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,319 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,251 of the 2,319 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.70%, against 1.89% 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

8.5% 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 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.5% on time across 149 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 149 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 4.70% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 142 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.