Carrier route record
OODFW→LBB
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock
- Flights
- 402
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to LBB 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 402 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 386 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.73%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 402 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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 LBB
SkyWest flew 402 of the 2,617 flights on DFW to LBB, about 15% of it. Its 78.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.3% to American at 65.2%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,570 | 85.3% | 63 min | 1.08% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 402 | 78.8% | 99 min | 3.73% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.8% | 89 min | 6.16% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 288 | 65.2% | 79 min | 4.17% | 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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am54 flights88.2%
- 8am–11am153 flights86.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm129 flights66.7%
- 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 88.2% of the time, against 66.7% for the evening window. That is 22 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 153 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to LBB through the year
- Jul–Sep 202531 flights80.6%
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights75.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.4%
- Apr–Jun 2026109 flights75.8%
- Jul–Sep 202699 flights80.6%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
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 402 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on DFW to LBB held fairly steady: 80.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 75.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.4% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 80.6% in Jul–Sep 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, Monday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.8%, a spread of 24 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to LBB runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to LBB often beats the schedule: 146 of 386 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 82 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 25 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early146 flights37.8%
- Within 15 min158 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late17 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late25 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights6.5%
- 2+ hours late15 flights3.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 386 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 94 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to LBB
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 January 2026, 13 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 January 2026 | 13 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 December 2025 | 12 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 January 2026 | 10 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 January 2026 | 5 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 8 February 2026 | 5 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 50% of the 8,145 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Carrier
- 25%Extreme weather
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,145 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,100 of the 8,145 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.73%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
10.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 79.2% on time across 400 flights, within half a point 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. 402 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 3.73% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 386 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LBB, every carrier
- SkyWest on LBB to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to LBB85.3%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LBB75.8%
- American Airlines on DFW to LBB65.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.