Carrier route record
OOELP→LAX
SkyWest Airlines · El Paso to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 769
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ELP to LAX earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 769 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ELP to LAX record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 763 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.6%
Every carrier on ELP to LAX, 1,265 flights
These figures cover 769 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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
SkyWest against every carrier on ELP to LAX
SkyWest flew 769 of the 1,265 flights on ELP to LAX, most of the route. Its 87.3% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 83.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.3% to Southwest at 78.0%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 769 | 87.3% | 111 min | 0.52% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 496 | 78.0% | 51 min | 0.20% | B+ |
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 19 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–8am334 flights89.7%
- 8am–11am29 flights—
- 11am–2pm273 flights90.5%
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm78 flights76.6%
- 8pm–5am54 flights71.2%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 90.5% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 71.2%. 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 334 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ELP to LAX through the year
February is the weak month at 74.5% on time, against 97.2% in May. 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 79 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.7%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 69%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 7,369 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,718 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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 costs
5.6% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 715 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.9% on time across 773 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 769 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 ELP to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 769 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 87.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 763 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ELP to LAX, every carrier
- SkyWest on LAX to ELP, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on ELP to LAX78.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- 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
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.