Carrier route record

OODFW→LAW

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lawton

Flights: 101
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 9%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on DFW to LAW lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 101 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to LAW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 99 completed flights

Avg delay

91 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.99%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

74.6%

Every carrier on DFW to LAW, 1,072 flights

These figures cover 101 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% 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 LAW

SkyWest flew 101 of the 1,072 flights on DFW to LAW, about 9% of it. Its 78.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 78.8% to Envoy at 70.8%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to LAW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	101	78.8%	91 min	0.99%	B+
PSA Airlines	895	74.4%	112 min	5.70%	C−
Envoy Airthin sample	76	70.8%	57 min	3.95%	C−

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

5am–8am—
8am–11am34 flights97.0%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm34 flights55.9%
8pm–5am33 flights84.4%

Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 55.9% on time, against 97.0% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 34 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to LAW through the year

Jul–Sep 2026101 flights78.8%

Scale runs 70% to 85%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.8% on time across 101 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on DFW to LAW logged 101 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 78.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 50% of the 1,916 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
Extreme weather
15%
National Airspace System
3%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,916 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 955 of the 1,916 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 0.99% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.99%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.1% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 140 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 runs 77.0% on time across 101 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. 101 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 LAW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 101 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 78.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 99 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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