Route reliability record
EGE→DEN
Eagle to Denver
- Flights
- 1,172
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 120 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B+, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,172 EGE to DEN flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly EGE to DEN: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 80.8% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.0%, against 76.2% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,164 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.51%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
United
79.0% on time across 893 flights
These figures cover 1,172 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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
Which airline is most reliable on EGE to DEN
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 893 | 79.0% | 68 min | 0.22% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 279 | 67.3% | 76 min | 1.43% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on EGE to DEN
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Eagle to Denver
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EGE → DENEagle to Denver | United Airlines | 78.8% | 79.0% | 0.22% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 2663 13:40 |
| 2. ASE → DENAspen to Denver | SkyWest Airlines | 71.3% | 75.2% | 5.15% | 5am–8am, Wed | OO 5766 07:00 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 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–8am365 flights80.8%
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm378 flights79.5%
- 2pm–5pm398 flights68.6%
- 5pm–8pm25 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 80.8% of the time, against 68.6% for the afternoon window. That is 12 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 398 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 46 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 47.8% on time, 46 points below June, the best at 93.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 146 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 68.5%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 19,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%National Airspace System
- 24%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 19,435 reported delay minutes.
40% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 7,768 minutes out of 19,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations are rare at 0.51%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
7.5% 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 120 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 78.7% on time across 1,172 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 1,172 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DEN after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. June runs 93.3% on time and July 47.8%, a swing of 46 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,164 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
EGE to DEN questions
How often is EGE to DEN delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.8% of the 1,172 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is EGE to DEN compared with the rest of the country?
76.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of about a point against it. That is worth a B+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on EGE to DEN?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 80.8% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 68.6%, 12 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on EGE to DEN?
July is the weakest month at 47.8% on time, compared with 93.3% in June. Across the year that is 46 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DEN to EGE — the return legseparate record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- United Airlines on EGE to DEN79.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on EGE to DEN67.3%
- EGE to DFW, a related route66.6%
- PHX to DEN, a related route77.2%
- SLC to DEN, a related route77.8%
- United Airlines on-time record79.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record67.3%
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
Direction matters. EGE to DEN and DEN to EGE are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.