Carrier route record
OODFW→TUL
SkyWest Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Tulsa
- Flights
- 212
- 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 TUL 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 212 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 818 at 84.2% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DFW to TUL record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 205 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.36%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.3%
Every carrier on DFW to TUL, 2,845 flights
These figures cover 212 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 TUL
SkyWest flew 212 of the 2,845 flights on DFW to TUL, about 7% of it. Its 87.3% on time is 15 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.3% to American at 63.8%. 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 84.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 63.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,639 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 212 | 87.3% | 74 min | 2.36% | A |
| Envoy Air | 818 | 84.2% | 46 min | 3.06% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 176 | 78.0% | 72 min | 4.55% | B− |
| American Airlines | 1,639 | 63.8% | 82 min | 3.42% | D− |
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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against 20 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am121 flights93.2%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm19 flights—
- 5pm–8pm70 flights82.1%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 82.1% for the evening window. That is 11 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 121 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DFW to TUL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.4%
- Oct–Dec 202562 flights86.4%
- Jan–Mar 202642 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202616 flights—
Scale runs 65% 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 87.3% on time across 212 flights.
SkyWest on DFW to TUL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.0%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 71 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.5%. 17 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 50% of the 1,910 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.
- 50%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,910 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, 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 949 of the 1,910 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.36% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.94%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 237 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 82.0% on time across 212 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 212 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 TUL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 212 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 87.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 205 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to TUL, every carrier
- SkyWest on TUL to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to TUL84.2%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to TUL78.0%
- American Airlines on DFW to TUL63.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.