Carrier route record
OODRO→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Durango to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,212
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 90%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DRO to DFW lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,212 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's DRO to DFW record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 42 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,171 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.89%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on DRO to DFW, 1,340 flights
These figures cover 1,212 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on DRO to DFW
SkyWest flew 1,212 of the 1,340 flights on DRO to DFW, most of the route. Its 81.8% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.8% to American at 66.4%. 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) | 1,212 | 81.8% | 89 min | 2.89% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 128 | 66.4% | 136 min | 1.56% | C |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on DRO to DFW
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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am342 flights89.0%
- 8am–11am251 flights88.2%
- 11am–2pm265 flights80.2%
- 2pm–5pm205 flights74.5%
- 5pm–8pm149 flights66.4%
- 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 89.0% of the time, against 66.4% for the evening window. That is 23 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 342 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. June was the busiest month here, with 153 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.3%. 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 52% of the 19,000 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Extreme weather
- 6%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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 18,995 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 9,851 of the 19,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.89%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
8.1% 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 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 79.1% on time across 1,214 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,212 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 delay figures matter less here than the 2.89% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,171 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.