Carrier route record

OODFW→LBB

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock

Flights: 440
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on DFW to LBB lands a B−, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 440 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

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

On time

78.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 418 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.77%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,628 flights

These figures cover 440 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% 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 LBB

SkyWest flew 440 of the 2,628 flights on DFW to LBB, about 17% of it. Its 78.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to American at 59.8%. Two 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 LBB
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,502	84.1%	63 min	1.13%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	440	78.9%	100 min	4.77%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	336	77.8%	81 min	6.25%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	350	59.8%	96 min	4.00%	D−

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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am90 flights88.4%
8am–11am156 flights83.6%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm128 flights67.5%
8pm–5am65 flights75.8%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.4% of the time, against 67.5% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 156 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to LBB through the year

Jul–Sep 2025168 flights80.7%
Oct–Dec 202573 flights75.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.4%
Apr–Jun 2026109 flights75.8%

Scale runs 65% 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 78.9% on time across 440 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on DFW to LBB held fairly steady: 80.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 75.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.0%. 20 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 52% of the 8,804 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
52%
Extreme weather
23%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
National Airspace System
9%

Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 8,804 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 4,568 of the 8,804 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.77%, 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. 11.0% 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 282 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 runs 77.3% on time across 438 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. 440 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 LBB

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.77% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 418 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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