Carrier route record
OODFW→SBN
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to South Bend
- Flights
- 788
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 80%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DFW to SBN sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 788 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on DFW to SBN runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 46 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 773 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.9%
Every carrier on DFW to SBN, 984 flights
These figures cover 788 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% 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 SBN
SkyWest flew 788 of the 984 flights on DFW to SBN, most of the route. Its 72.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 78.7% to SkyWest at 72.7%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 196 | 78.7% | 49 min | 3.57% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 788 | 72.7% | 96 min | 1.52% | C |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DFW to SBN
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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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am62 flights91.9%
- 11am–2pm261 flights75.7%
- 2pm–5pm104 flights70.9%
- 5pm–8pm360 flights67.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 67.6% for the evening window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 360 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to SBN through the year
February is the weak month at 54.5% on time, against 88.3% in December. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.5%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DFW to SBN runs when it is late
SkyWest on DFW to SBN often beats the schedule: 274 of 773 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on DFW to SBN is late it tends to be very late: 109 of its 211 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 55 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early274 flights35.4%
- Within 15 min288 flights37.3%
- 15–29 min late51 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late51 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late54 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late55 flights7.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 773 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 222 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DFW to SBN
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 July 2026, 17 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Four of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2026 | 17 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 May 2026 | 11 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 May 2026 | 11 hours 31 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 May 2026 | 11 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 May 2026 | 5 hours 43 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 20,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Extreme weather
- 8%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 20,157 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,089 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.52% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
14.1% 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.
The 846 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 73.8% on time across 788 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. 788 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 SBN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 788 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 72.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 773 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SBN, every carrier
- SkyWest on SBN to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to SBN78.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.