Carrier route record
OOFAR→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Denver
- Flights
- 879
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 879 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on FAR to DEN runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 75 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 863 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.48%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.9%
Every carrier on FAR to DEN, 1,425 flights
These figures cover 879 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 FAR to DEN
SkyWest flew 879 of the 1,425 flights on FAR to DEN, most of the route. Its 70.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 70.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 76.9% to United at 69.6%. 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 | 182 | 76.9% | 66 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 879 | 70.1% | 101 min | 1.48% | C |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 364 | 69.6% | 79 min | 0.55% | C+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on FAR to DEN
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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am158 flights88.6%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm362 flights66.1%
- 2pm–5pm21 flights—
- 5pm–8pm337 flights65.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.6% of the time, against 65.4% 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. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 73.3% on time and Friday the weakest at 64.1%. 9 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 26,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
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 9,247 of the 26,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 26,041 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 88.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
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. 14.9% 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.
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. 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 78.1% on time across 881 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 879 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. 879 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 70.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 863 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 DEN76.9%
- United Airlines on FAR to DEN69.6%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.