Carrier route record

OOICT→PHX

SkyWest Airlines · Wichita to Phoenix

Flights: 289
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 39%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on ICT to PHX earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 289 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's ICT to PHX record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 288 completed flights

Avg delay

94 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.35%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.9%

Every carrier on ICT to PHX, 739 flights

These figures cover 289 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on ICT to PHX

SkyWest flew 289 of the 739 flights on ICT to PHX, about 39% of it. Its 84.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.2% to SkyWest at 84.0%. Two 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 ICT to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	284	86.2%	54 min	0.70%	A+
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	166	84.1%	46 min	1.20%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	289	84.0%	94 min	0.35%	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 13 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–8am56 flights91.1%
8am–11am56 flights78.6%
11am–2pm81 flights81.2%
2pm–5pm96 flights85.4%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.1% of the time, against 78.6% for the morning window. That is 13 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 96 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on ICT to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202558 flights89.7%
Oct–Dec 202525 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026122 flights85.1%
Apr–Jun 202684 flights77.4%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 84.0% on time across 289 flights.

SkyWest on ICT to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 89.7% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 96 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, Friday is the strongest day at 91.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.2%. 15 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 57% of the 4,312 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
57%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, 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 2,445 of the 4,312 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,312 reported delay minutes.

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 91.1% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.35%, below the national 1.81% 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

7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

The 870 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.4% on time across 290 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 289 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 ICT to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 289 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 84.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 288 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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