Carrier route record

OODFW→MAF

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Midland

Flights: 782
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on DFW to MAF lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 782 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,769 at 82.2% on time.

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

On time

78.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 765 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.4%

Every carrier on DFW to MAF, 2,934 flights

These figures cover 782 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% 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 MAF

SkyWest flew 782 of the 2,934 flights on DFW to MAF, about 27% of it. Its 78.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to PSA at 76.6%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to MAF
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,769	82.2%	55 min	2.60%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	782	78.0%	83 min	2.17%	B
PSA Airlines	383	76.6%	98 min	4.96%	B−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 15 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am334 flights85.1%
8am–11am14 flights—
11am–2pm44 flights81.8%
2pm–5pm197 flights70.8%
5pm–8pm71 flights70.6%
8pm–5am122 flights70.9%

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

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 85.1% of the time, against 70.6% for the evening window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 334 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to MAF through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.September best, August worst

August is the worst month at 65.7% on time, 20 points below September, the best at 85.7%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 70.3%. 15 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 46% of the 14,000 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
46%
Extreme weather
27%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
National Airspace System
8%

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 4.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 13,976 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, 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 6,437 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 10.7% 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 309 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.9% on time across 782 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. 782 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 MAF

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 782 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. 765 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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