Carrier route record

OOELP→ORD

SkyWest Airlines · El Paso to Chicago

Flights: 262
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 36%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on ELP to ORD lands a B, 2 points 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on ELP to ORD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.29%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.7%

Every carrier on ELP to ORD, 726 flights

These figures cover 262 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on ELP to ORD

SkyWest flew 262 of the 726 flights on ELP to ORD, about 36% of it. Its 76.0% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 88.4% to United at 0.0%. Four of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on ELP to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	45	88.4%	99 min	4.44%	A−
Envoy Airthin sample	291	87.5%	48 min	0.69%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	126	84.8%	119 min	0.79%	B+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	262	76.0%	60 min	2.29%	B
United Airlinesthin sample	2	0.0%	30 min	0.00%	F+

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 262 flights.

5am–8am36 flights75.8%
8am–11am207 flights79.7%
11am–2pm19 flights—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 79.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.

Across the year

SkyWest on ELP to ORD through the year

Jul–Sep 2025107 flights80.4%
Oct–Dec 202588 flights79.1%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
Apr–Jun 202662 flights62.3%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 76.0% on time across 262 flights.

SkyWest on ELP to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.3%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 87 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, Friday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 64.1%. 23 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 44% of the 3,676 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.

Carrier
44%
National Airspace System
32%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 1,611 of the 3,676 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,676 reported delay minutes.

32% 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 1,190 minutes out of 3,676, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 2.29% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.76%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.1% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,236 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 69.2% on time across 258 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 ORD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 262 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 76.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 254 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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