Carrier route record
OOFAR→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Denver
- Flights
- 878
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FAR to DEN sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 878 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on FAR to DEN runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 862 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.48%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.6%
Every carrier on FAR to DEN, 1,413 flights
These figures cover 878 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on FAR to DEN
SkyWest flew 878 of the 1,413 flights on FAR to DEN, most of the route. Its 71.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 79.1% to SkyWest at 71.0%. Two 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 172 | 79.1% | 53 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 363 | 73.2% | 76 min | 0.28% | C+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 878 | 71.0% | 101 min | 1.48% | C |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on FAR to DEN
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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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am157 flights89.2%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm362 flights66.9%
- 2pm–5pm21 flights—
- 5pm–8pm336 flights66.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.2% of the time, against 66.6% for the evening window. That is 23 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on FAR to DEN through the year
December is the weak month at 52.5% on time, against 83.1% in October. 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 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 63.5%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on FAR to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on FAR to DEN often beats the schedule: 276 of 862 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 250 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 76 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 124 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early276 flights32.0%
- Within 15 min336 flights39.0%
- 15–29 min late50 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late76 flights8.8%
- 1–2 hours late62 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late62 flights7.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 862 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
31 of 240 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 41 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on FAR to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 January 2026, 20 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across January, August and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January 2026 | 20 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 20 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 September 2025 | 9 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 August 2026 | 9 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 January 2026 | 8 hours | 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 25,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 7%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 9,086 minutes out of 25,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 25,309 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 89.2% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 627 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.5% on time across 879 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 878 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 FAR to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 878 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 71.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 862 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FAR to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to FAR, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on FAR to DEN79.1%
- United Airlines on FAR to DEN73.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.