Carrier route record

OODTW→SYR

SkyWest Airlines · Detroit to Syracuse

Flights: 355
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 49%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on DTW to SYR sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 355 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on DTW to SYR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

74.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

91 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

76.5%

Every carrier on DTW to SYR, 725 flights

These figures cover 355 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% 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 DTW to SYR

SkyWest flew 355 of the 725 flights on DTW to SYR, about 49% of it. Its 74.9% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.0% to SkyWest at 74.9%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DTW to SYR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airwaysthin sample	5	80.0%	19 min	0.00%	B+
Delta Air Lines	365	78.2%	55 min	2.19%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	355	74.9%	91 min	0.00%	C+

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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am98 flights88.8%
8am–11am74 flights62.2%
11am–2pm84 flights72.6%
2pm–5pm99 flights72.4%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.8% of the time, against 62.2% for the morning window. That is 27 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 99 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on DTW to SYR through the year

Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
Jan–Mar 202689 flights58.4%
Apr–Jun 2026101 flights89.0%
Jul–Sep 2026147 flights73.5%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. 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 74.9% on time across 355 flights.

SkyWest on DTW to SYR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 58.4%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 118 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, Monday is the strongest day at 77.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.8%, a spread of 8 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on DTW to SYR runs when it is late

SkyWest on DTW to SYR often beats the schedule: 104 of 354 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 89 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.

15+ min early104 flights29.4%
Within 15 min161 flights45.5%
15–29 min late19 flights5.4%
30–59 min late27 flights7.6%
1–2 hours late24 flights6.8%
2+ hours late19 flights5.4%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 96 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 11 made it up before arrival. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on DTW to SYR

The latest arrival of the period was on 15 January 2026, 10 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on DTW to SYR in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
15 January 2026	10 hours 52 minutes	Extreme weather
9 August 2026	6 hours 8 minutes	Carrier
6 January 2026	5 hours 32 minutes	Extreme weather
22 February 2026	4 hours 40 minutes	Carrier
14 January 2026	4 hours 30 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 76% of the 8,052 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
76%
Extreme weather
19%
National Airspace System
6%

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 8,052 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,081 of the 8,052 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

12.1% 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.

At 374 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 76.8% on time across 355 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. 355 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 DTW to SYR

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 355 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 74.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 354 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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