Carrier route record

OOGEG→SEA

SkyWest Airlines · Spokane to Seattle

Flights: 3,020
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 58%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on GEG to SEA 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 3,020 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's GEG to SEA record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 106 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,987 completed flights

Avg delay

60 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.99%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.9%

Every carrier on GEG to SEA, 5,183 flights

These figures cover 3,020 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 GEG to SEA

SkyWest flew 3,020 of the 5,183 flights on GEG to SEA, most of the route. Its 88.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 85.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 93.8% to Alaska at 80.6%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on GEG to SEA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Linesthin sample	343	93.8%	145 min	1.46%	A
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	3,020	88.2%	60 min	0.99%	A+
Alaska Airlines	1,820	80.6%	43 min	1.10%	B

Flight by flight

SkyWest flight numbers on GEG to SEA

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am703 flights94.0%
8am–11am365 flights82.0%
11am–2pm863 flights85.7%
2pm–5pm583 flights87.2%
5pm–8pm487 flights89.9%
8pm–5am19 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.0% of the time, against 82.0% for the morning window. That is 12 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 863 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on GEG to SEA through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.May best, January worst

January is the weak month at 83.3% on time, against 92.2% 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. July was the busiest month here, with 333 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 93.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 80.9%. 12 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 21,000 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.

Carrier
44%
Extreme weather
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%
National Airspace System
11%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 33% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 5.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,261 reported delay minutes.

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 9,436 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 0.99% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.10%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 224 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 87.7% on time across 3,058 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

The sample behind these figures is 3,020 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.

What to do with this

Booking SkyWest on GEG to SEA

Put together: take the 5am–8am departure, avoid January if the dates are flexible, and if two carriers are within a few dollars of each other, Alaska is the one with the record behind it. None of that guarantees an on-time arrival; it moves the odds by 12 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 2,987 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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