Carrier route record

OODFW→OKC

SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Oklahoma City

Flights: 228
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
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 OKC earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 228 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,087 at 82.7% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to OKC record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 93 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 222 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.75%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.4%

Every carrier on DFW to OKC, 3,175 flights

These figures cover 228 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 OKC

SkyWest flew 228 of the 3,175 flights on DFW to OKC, about 7% of it. Its 86.9% on time is 15 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.9% to American at 64.1%. 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 82.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,772 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to OKC
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	228	86.9%	56 min	1.75%	A
Envoy Air	1,087	82.7%	57 min	2.85%	B
PSA Airlinesthin sample	88	74.4%	95 min	5.68%	C−
American Airlines	1,772	64.1%	71 min	3.22%	D−

American Airlines cancels 3.2% 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 20 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am161 flights91.7%
8am–11am5 flights—
11am–2pm35 flights71.4%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm22 flights—
8pm–5am5 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 71.4% on time against 91.7% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 161 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DFW to OKC through the year

Jul–Sep 202531 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202563 flights94.9%
Jan–Mar 202613 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026121 flights81.8%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 86.9% on time across 228 flights.

SkyWest on DFW to OKC did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.8%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 76 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.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Extreme weather accounts for 53% of the 1,623 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.

Extreme weather
53%
National Airspace System
19%
Carrier
19%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%

Extreme weather accounts for 53% 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 8.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,623 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.75% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.88%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.7% 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 175 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 84.6% on time across 228 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. 228 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 OKC

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 228 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 86.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 222 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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