Carrier route record
OOEGE→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Eagle to Denver
- Flights
- 279
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 24%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on EGE to DEN draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on EGE to DEN runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 103 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.43%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.2%
Every carrier on EGE to DEN, 1,172 flights
These figures cover 279 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 EGE to DEN
SkyWest flew 279 of the 1,172 flights on EGE to DEN, about 24% of it. Its 67.3% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 79.0% to SkyWest at 67.3%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 893 | 79.0% | 68 min | 0.22% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 279 | 67.3% | 76 min | 1.43% | C |
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 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–8am—
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm50 flights75.5%
- 2pm–5pm198 flights63.3%
- 5pm–8pm25 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 75.5% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 63.3%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 198 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on EGE to DEN through the year
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights45.6%
- Oct–Dec 202570 flights74.3%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights76.7%
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights85.7%
Scale runs 35% to 90%. 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 67.3% on time across 279 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 45.6%, a swing of 40 points on roughly 70 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 52.4%. 23 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 6,796 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,796 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, 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 2,438 of the 6,796 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 84.4% on time across 279 flights, 17 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 17 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 279 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. 279 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 67.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 275 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.