Carrier route record
OOEGE→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Eagle to Denver
- Flights
- 217
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on EGE to DEN sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 217 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on EGE to DEN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 215 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.92%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.3%
Every carrier on EGE to DEN, 1,171 flights
These figures cover 217 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on EGE to DEN
SkyWest flew 217 of the 1,171 flights on EGE to DEN, about 19% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 80.4% to SkyWest at 74.4%.
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 | 954 | 80.4% | 84 min | 0.31% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 217 | 74.4% | 54 min | 0.92% | C+ |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 217 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm50 flights75.5%
- 2pm–5pm136 flights72.8%
- 5pm–8pm25 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 75.5% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on EGE to DEN through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights53.3%
- Oct–Dec 202570 flights74.3%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights76.7%
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights85.7%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 74.4% on time across 217 flights.
SkyWest on EGE to DEN did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 53.3%, a swing of 32 points on roughly 54 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, Sunday is the strongest day at 80.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 61.8%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on EGE to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on EGE to DEN often beats the schedule: 70 of 215 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early70 flights32.6%
- Within 15 min90 flights41.9%
- 15–29 min late20 flights9.3%
- 30–59 min late22 flights10.2%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 215 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. In the other direction, 26 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on EGE to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 March 2026, 4 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 September 2025 | 2 hours 1 minute | National Airspace System |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 February 2026 | 1 hour 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
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 2,973 reported delay minutes.
- 36%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
36% 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 1,058 minutes out of 2,973, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,973 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 0.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.0% 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 about 55 minutes, 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.6% on time across 217 flights, 11 points above 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 217 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 EGE to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 217 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 74.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 215 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EGE to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to EGE, the return leg
- United Airlines on EGE to DEN80.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
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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.