Carrier route record
OODFW→LIT
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Little Rock
- Flights
- 342
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- 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 LIT lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 342 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,748 at 83.1% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DFW to LIT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.75%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.2%
Every carrier on DFW to LIT, 2,657 flights
These figures cover 342 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DFW to LIT
SkyWest flew 342 of the 2,657 flights on DFW to LIT, about 13% of it. Its 78.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.1% to American at 59.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 425 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,748 | 83.1% | 58 min | 1.95% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 342 | 78.0% | 69 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 142 | 75.7% | 67 min | 4.23% | B− |
| American Airlines | 425 | 59.2% | 87 min | 2.59% | D |
The spread between Envoy and American is 24 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 24 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 12 points, against 24 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am162 flights81.1%
- 11am–2pm26 flights—
- 2pm–5pm65 flights81.0%
- 5pm–8pm89 flights69.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 81.1% of the time, against 69.3% for the evening window. That is 12 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 162 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to LIT through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025101 flights81.8%
- Jan–Mar 2026112 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202699 flights81.6%
Scale runs 65% 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 78.0% on time across 342 flights.
SkyWest on DFW to LIT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.8%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 114 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 89.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.9%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to LIT runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to LIT often beats the schedule: 90 of 336 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 74 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights26.8%
- Within 15 min172 flights51.2%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.7%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 336 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to LIT
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 December 2025, 14 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 December 2025 | 14 hours 22 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 September 2025 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 March 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 April 2026 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 September 2025 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,096 reported delay minutes.
- 32%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 27% 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 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,096 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.1% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.1% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 304 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 72.4% on time across 342 flights, 6 points below 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 342 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 LIT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 342 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 78.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 336 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LIT, every carrier
- SkyWest on LIT to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to LIT83.1%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LIT75.7%
- American Airlines on DFW to LIT59.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.