Carrier route record

OODFW→MFE

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to McAllen

Flights: 101
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
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 MFE earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 101 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 729 at 80.1% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to MFE record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 99 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.98%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

70.6%

Every carrier on DFW to MFE, 2,410 flights

These figures cover 101 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on DFW to MFE

SkyWest flew 101 of the 2,410 flights on DFW to MFE, about 4% of it. Its 88.9% on time is 18 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 88.9% to American at 65.0%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 80.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 65.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,580 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to MFE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	101	88.9%	62 min	1.98%	A
Envoy Air	729	80.1%	50 min	1.78%	B
American Airlines	1,580	65.0%	82 min	3.42%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.4% 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 is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 101 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's DFW to MFE record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 88.9% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to MFE through the year

Jul–Sep 202556 flights87.3%
Oct–Dec 202540 flights90.0%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. 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 88.9% on time across 101 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on DFW to MFE logged 56 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 40 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 5 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 88.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 67% of the 682 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
67%
Extreme weather
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
National Airspace System
3%

Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 682 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, 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 455 of the 682 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 469 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 87.9% on time across 101 flights, within about 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. 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 MFE

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 88.9% 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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