Carrier route record
OOHDN→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Hayden to Denver
- Flights
- 216
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on HDN to DEN sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 216 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 779 at 83.9% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on HDN to DEN runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 215 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.46%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on HDN to DEN, 1,433 flights
These figures cover 216 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% 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 HDN to DEN
SkyWest flew 216 of the 1,433 flights on HDN to DEN, about 15% of it. Its 73.0% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 83.9% to SkyWest at 73.0%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 83.9% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 77.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 438 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 779 | 83.9% | 76 min | 0.90% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 438 | 77.4% | 72 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 216 | 73.0% | 73 min | 0.46% | C+ |
United leads Southwest by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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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 20 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am90 flights84.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm126 flights64.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.4% of the time, against 64.8% for the afternoon window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 126 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on HDN to DEN through the year
- Jul–Sep 202554 flights77.8%
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights85.0%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights53.7%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights70.0%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 73.0% on time across 216 flights.
SkyWest on HDN to DEN did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 53.7%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 54 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 81.8% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 61.3%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on HDN to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on HDN to DEN often beats the schedule: 69 of 215 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 58 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights32.1%
- Within 15 min88 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late18 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late14 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights7.9%
- 2+ hours late9 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 215 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on HDN to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 August 2026, 4 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 June 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 August 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
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 4,252 reported delay minutes.
- 34%National Airspace System
- 31%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
34% 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 1,451 minutes out of 4,252, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,252 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.46%, 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
12.1% 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.
At 141 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 77.6% on time across 215 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 216 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 HDN to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 216 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 73.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 215 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HDN to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to HDN, the return leg
- United Airlines on HDN to DEN83.9%
- Southwest Airlines on HDN to DEN77.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Flying to ski country: which routes into the mountains run on time
- 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.