Carrier route record
OOFAT→LAX
SkyWest Airlines · Fresno to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 768
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 79%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FAT to LAX earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 768 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's FAT to LAX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 763 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.7%
Every carrier on FAT to LAX, 967 flights
These figures cover 768 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on FAT to LAX
SkyWest flew 768 of the 967 flights on FAT to LAX, most of the route. Its 84.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 85.4% to SkyWest at 84.5%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 199 | 85.4% | 60 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 768 | 84.5% | 68 min | 0.65% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on FAT to LAX
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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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am148 flights82.9%
- 8am–11am62 flights78.0%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm364 flights89.6%
- 5pm–8pm194 flights78.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 89.6% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 78.0%. 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 364 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on FAT to LAX through the year
August is the worst month at 75.6% on time, 19 points below September, the best at 94.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. November was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 87.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 82.1%, a spread of 5 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on FAT to LAX runs when it is late
The 118 late arrivals split 51 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early165 flights21.6%
- Within 15 min480 flights62.9%
- 15–29 min late51 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late28 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late19 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 763 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 95 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 43 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on FAT to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 May 2026, 9 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2026 | 9 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 6 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 October 2025 | 5 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 October 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 8,067 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,822 of the 8,067 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,067 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 209 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 87.0% on time across 765 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 768 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 FAT to LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 768 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 84.5% 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.
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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.