Carrier route record
OODRO→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Durango to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,178
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DRO to DFW lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,178 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DRO to DFW record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,141 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.3%
Every carrier on DRO to DFW, 1,351 flights
These figures cover 1,178 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DRO to DFW
SkyWest flew 1,178 of the 1,351 flights on DRO to DFW, most of the route. Its 82.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.9% to American at 70.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,178 | 82.9% | 94 min | 2.55% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 173 | 70.8% | 82 min | 0.58% | C+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DRO to DFW
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am351 flights90.5%
- 8am–11am226 flights89.6%
- 11am–2pm243 flights80.9%
- 2pm–5pm188 flights74.6%
- 5pm–8pm170 flights69.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.5% of the time, against 69.2% for the evening window. That is 21 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 351 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DRO to DFW through the year
Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 72.2%. December is the strongest month at 88.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 16 points. July was the busiest month here, with 158 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 77.0%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DRO to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on DRO to DFW often beats the schedule: 611 of 1,141 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 195 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 49 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 90 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early611 flights53.5%
- Within 15 min335 flights29.4%
- 15–29 min late56 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late49 flights4.3%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late51 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,141 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 194 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 27 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DRO to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 March 2026, 9 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2026 | 9 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 9 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 March 2026 | 8 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 February 2026 | 8 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 7 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 18,261 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,585 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.55%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 674 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.3% on time across 1,177 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,178 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on DRO to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. December runs 88.5% on time and September 72.2%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of September before you think about anything else. 1,141 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.