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Carrier route record

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SkyWest Airlines · Green Bay to Detroit

Flights
625
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route
77%
Carriers
2
BGRADE

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

SkyWest on GRB to DTW lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 625 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

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

Key figures

On time

79.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 611 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.24%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.2%

Every carrier on GRB to DTW, 812 flights

These figures cover 625 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.8% 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 GRB to DTW

SkyWest flew 625 of the 812 flights on GRB to DTW, most of the route. Its 79.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 81.3% to SkyWest at 79.9%. 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 GRB to DTW
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Delta Air Linesthin sample18781.3%77 min1.60%B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)62579.9%112 min2.24%B

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–8am266 flights86.6%
  • 8am–11am
  • 11am–2pm265 flights75.1%
  • 2pm–5pm11 flights
  • 5pm–8pm83 flights76.8%
  • 8pm–5am

Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 75.1% on time against 86.6% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 266 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on GRB to DTW through the year

On-time rate by calendar month66J85F67M81A83M97JJAS87O82N71D
Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.June best, January worst

January is the weak month at 66.2% on time, against 97.1% in June. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 84.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.2%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

On-time rate by day of the week78.3Mon81.6Tue78.8Wed84.7Thu82.4Fri75.2Sat78.8Sun
Monday: 78.3 percent on time. Tuesday: 81.6 percent on time. Wednesday: 78.8 percent on time. Thursday: 84.7 percent on time. Friday: 82.4 percent on time. Saturday: 75.2 percent on time. Sunday: 78.8 percent on time

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 73% of the 14,000 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
    73%
  • Extreme weather
    22%
  • National Airspace System
    5%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 13,732 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 73%, 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 10,000 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

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. 11.8% 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.

At 287 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.7% on time across 626 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 625 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 GRB to DTW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 625 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 79.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 611 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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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.