Carrier route record

OOJAN→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Jackson to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 157
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 8%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on JAN to DFW lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 157 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 695 at 80.2% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on JAN to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 149 completed flights

Avg delay

72 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.10%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.1%

Every carrier on JAN to DFW, 1,926 flights

These figures cover 157 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% 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 JAN to DFW

SkyWest flew 157 of the 1,926 flights on JAN to DFW, about 8% of it. Its 76.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.2% to PSA at 75.2%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 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 JAN to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	695	80.2%	62 min	3.02%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	157	76.5%	72 min	5.10%	B−
PSA Airlines	1,074	75.2%	119 min	3.35%	B−

PSA Airlines cancels 3.4% 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 is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 157 flights.

5am–8am5 flights—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm59 flights80.4%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm68 flights78.1%
8pm–5am25 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 80.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

SkyWest on JAN to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202522 flights—
Oct–Dec 202566 flights70.3%
Jan–Mar 202669 flights85.9%

Scale runs 60% 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 76.5% on time across 157 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on JAN to DFW logged 22 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 66 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 69 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 83.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%. 17 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 2,506 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Extreme weather
22%
National Airspace System
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,506 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.10%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 12.1% 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 408 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 75.0% on time across 156 flights, within 2 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. 157 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 JAN to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.10% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 149 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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