Carrier route record
OOLAX→ABQ
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Albuquerque
- Flights
- 1,718
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 78%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LAX to ABQ earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 1,718 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's LAX to ABQ record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 94 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,710 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.29%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
86.0%
Every carrier on LAX to ABQ, 2,198 flights
These figures cover 1,718 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 LAX to ABQ
SkyWest flew 1,718 of the 2,198 flights on LAX to ABQ, most of the route. Its 87.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 86.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.0% to Southwest at 82.5%.
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) | 1,718 | 87.0% | 75 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 480 | 82.5% | 40 min | 0.21% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on LAX to ABQ
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 1,718 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am728 flights89.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm317 flights85.1%
- 5pm–8pm299 flights82.6%
- 8pm–5am374 flights87.1%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 89.6% on time for the 8am–11am window against 82.6% for 5pm–8pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 728 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LAX to ABQ through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 82.8%. June is the strongest month at 93.2%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 10 points. May was the busiest month here, with 163 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 83.5%. 7 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 69% of the 17,000 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.
- 69%Carrier
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 12,000 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 16,724 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
The 677 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 91.1% on time across 1,717 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,718 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 LAX to ABQ
Put together: take the 8am–11am departure, avoid March if the dates are flexible, and if two carriers are within a few dollars of each other, Southwest is the one with the record behind it. None of that guarantees an on-time arrival; it moves the odds by 7 points, which is the most any booking decision can do. 1,710 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to ABQ, every carrier
- SkyWest on ABQ to LAX, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LAX to ABQ82.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.