Carrier route record
OOICT→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Wichita to Denver
- Flights
- 1,297
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 58%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ICT to DEN lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,297 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Southwest Airlines, flew 559 at 81.6% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on ICT to DEN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,286 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.62%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.7%
Every carrier on ICT to DEN, 2,227 flights
These figures cover 1,297 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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 ICT to DEN
SkyWest flew 1,297 of the 2,227 flights on ICT to DEN, most of the route. Its 80.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 81.6% to United at 68.6%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 81.6% of the time; United Airlines manages 68.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 371 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 559 | 81.6% | 62 min | 0.36% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,297 | 80.4% | 82 min | 0.62% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 371 | 68.6% | 46 min | 0.54% | C+ |
The spread between Southwest and United is 13 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 13 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on ICT to DEN
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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 24 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am340 flights91.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm509 flights84.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm448 flights67.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 67.6% for the evening window. That is 24 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 509 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ICT to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 70.5% on time, 16 points below May, the best at 86.8%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 141 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 77.9%, a spread of 5 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ICT to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on ICT to DEN often beats the schedule: 457 of 1,286 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 252 late arrivals split 72 under half an hour, 70 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 110 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early457 flights35.5%
- Within 15 min577 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late72 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late70 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late57 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late53 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,286 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
46 of 230 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 68 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 ICT to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 December 2025, 10 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across December, November, March and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 December 2025 | 10 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 8 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 March 2026 | 7 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 7 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 October 2025 | 6 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
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 21,000 reported delay minutes.
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 28%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.4% on time here. The split is drawn from 20,658 reported delay minutes.
No single cause dominates. late-arriving aircraft at 31%, national airspace system at 30% and carrier at 28% split the 21,000 reported delay minutes between them. An even spread like this usually means the operation is running close to its designed capacity with no one obvious weak point, and it is the hardest pattern for a traveller to route around.
Cancellations are rare at 0.62%, 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
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 420 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 85.3% on time across 1,300 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,297 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 ICT to DEN
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 86.8% on time and August 70.5%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,286 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to ICT, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on ICT to DEN81.6%
- United Airlines on ICT to DEN68.6%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.