Carrier route record

OOHOU→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Houston to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 380
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on HOU to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 380 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,061 at 80.9% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on HOU to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 70 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

120 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.84%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.9%

Every carrier on HOU to DFW, 2,048 flights

These figures cover 380 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% 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 HOU to DFW

SkyWest flew 380 of the 2,048 flights on HOU to DFW, about 19% of it. Its 70.6% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.9% to SkyWest at 70.6%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on HOU to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,061	80.9%	68 min	2.73%	B
PSA Airlines	607	77.2%	103 min	5.77%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	380	70.6%	120 min	6.84%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.8% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 36 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am119 flights92.0%
11am–2pm33 flights67.7%
2pm–5pm79 flights56.2%
5pm–8pm102 flights62.4%
8pm–5am47 flights60.0%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.0% of the time, against 56.2% for the afternoon window. That is 36 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 119 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on HOU to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025116 flights59.8%
Oct–Dec 2025102 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202620 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026142 flights69.7%

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.6% on time across 380 flights.

SkyWest on HOU to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 59.8%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 127 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 79.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 58.8%. 21 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 52% of the 12,000 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
52%
Extreme weather
25%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,460 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 6,480 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 6.84%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

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. 14.1% 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 247 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 8am–11am 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 380 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 380 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 HOU to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 354 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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