Carrier route record
OOIAH→MAF
SkyWest Airlines · Houston to Midland
- Flights
- 268
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 37%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on IAH to MAF lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's IAH to MAF record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 268 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.8%
Every carrier on IAH to MAF, 720 flights
These figures cover 268 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 IAH to MAF
SkyWest flew 268 of the 720 flights on IAH to MAF, about 37% of it. Its 83.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 83.2% to United at 79.4%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 268 | 83.2% | 65 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 452 | 79.4% | 58 min | 0.66% | B+ |
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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 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am34 flights85.3%
- 8am–11am33 flights72.7%
- 11am–2pm21 flights—
- 2pm–5pm108 flights84.3%
- 5pm–8pm2 flights—
- 8pm–5am70 flights85.7%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 85.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on IAH to MAF through the year
- Jul–Sep 202520 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025143 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 202637 flights78.4%
- Apr–Jun 202644 flights77.3%
- Jul–Sep 202624 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 83.2% on time across 268 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on IAH to MAF held fairly steady: 84.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 77.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.9%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on IAH to MAF runs when it is late
SkyWest on IAH to MAF often beats the schedule: 75 of 268 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 23 of the 45 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 12 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights28.0%
- Within 15 min148 flights55.2%
- 15–29 min late23 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 268 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on IAH to MAF
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 March 2026, 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, December and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2026 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 December 2025 | 6 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 March 2026 | 6 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 5 December 2025 | 2 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,936 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,585 of the 2,936 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,936 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 429 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 85.9% on time across 265 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. 268 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 IAH to MAF
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 268 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 83.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 268 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to MAF, every carrier
- SkyWest on MAF to IAH, the return leg
- United Airlines on IAH to MAF79.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- The best day of the week to fly, and why it is the second lever
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.