Carrier route record
OODTW→TVC
SkyWest Airlines · Detroit to Traverse City
- Flights
- 693
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on DTW to TVC 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 693 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on DTW to TVC runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 50 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 675 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.1%
Every carrier on DTW to TVC, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 693 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 TVC
SkyWest flew 693 of the 1,062 flights on DTW to TVC, most of the route. Its 72.3% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 77.3% to SkyWest at 72.3%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 369 | 77.3% | 61 min | 1.90% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 693 | 72.3% | 82 min | 2.31% | 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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am272 flights78.3%
- 11am–2pm92 flights68.1%
- 2pm–5pm328 flights68.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 68.1% on time against 78.3% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 328 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on DTW to TVC through the year
January is the weak month at 47.2% on time, against 93.0% in October. 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. August was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 76.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on DTW to TVC runs when it is late
The 187 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 55 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 85 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early130 flights19.3%
- Within 15 min358 flights53.0%
- 15–29 min late47 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late55 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late53 flights7.9%
- 2+ hours late32 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 675 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 174 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 20 made it up before arrival. 33 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on DTW to TVC
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 March 2026, 7 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2026 | 7 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 7 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 6 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 February 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 73% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 73%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 15,288 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.31% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.6% 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 207 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 72.2% on time across 693 flights, within half 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. 693 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 TVC
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 693 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 72.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 675 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DTW to TVC, every carrier
- SkyWest on TVC to DTW, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on DTW to TVC77.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 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.