Carrier route record
OOJAN→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Jackson to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 149
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 8%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on JAN to DFW lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 149 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 653 at 82.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
77.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 142 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.5%
Every carrier on JAN to DFW, 1,905 flights
These figures cover 149 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 JAN to DFW
SkyWest flew 149 of the 1,905 flights on JAN to DFW, about 8% of it. Its 77.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.2% to PSA at 76.3%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 653 | 82.2% | 66 min | 2.30% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 149 | 77.5% | 70 min | 4.70% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 1,103 | 76.3% | 119 min | 3.17% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.2% 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.
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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 149 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm65 flights79.0%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm68 flights78.1%
- 8pm–5am16 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 79.0% on time. The full set of windows spans about a point.
Across the year
SkyWest on JAN to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 20258 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202566 flights70.3%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights85.9%
- Jul–Sep 20266 flights—
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 77.5% on time across 149 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on JAN to DFW logged 8 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 66 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 69 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 77.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on JAN to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on JAN to DFW often beats the schedule: 76 of 142 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 32 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights53.5%
- Within 15 min34 flights23.9%
- 15–29 min late12 flights8.5%
- 30–59 min late4 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights7.7%
- 2+ hours late5 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 142 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 35 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. No flight that left on time arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on JAN to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 January 2026, 4 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, October and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 October 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 October 2025 | 2 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 January 2026 | 2 hours 7 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 2,248 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 2,248 reported delay minutes.
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,248 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.70%, against 1.89% 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
11.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.9% on time across 149 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 149 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 4.70% 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. 142 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- JAN to DFW, every carrier
- SkyWest on DFW to JAN, the return leg
- Envoy Air on JAN to DFW82.2%
- PSA Airlines on JAN to DFW76.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.