Carrier route record
OOLAX→ELP
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to El Paso
- Flights
- 773
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- 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 ELP lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 773 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's LAX to ELP record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 53 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 766 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.5%
Every carrier on LAX to ELP, 1,269 flights
These figures cover 773 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 LAX to ELP
SkyWest flew 773 of the 1,269 flights on LAX to ELP, most of the route. Its 82.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.9% to Southwest at 76.8%.
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) | 773 | 82.9% | 99 min | 0.52% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 496 | 76.8% | 51 min | 0.00% | 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 16 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–8am—
- 8am–11am273 flights92.3%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm137 flights75.9%
- 5pm–8pm221 flights79.1%
- 8pm–5am141 flights77.0%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.3% of the time, against 75.9% for the afternoon window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 273 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LAX to ELP through the year
February is the weak month at 72.7% on time, against 94.4% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 79 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.1%. 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 63% of the 13,000 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.
- 63%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, 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 8,189 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 13,023 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.52%, 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
8.5% 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 715 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 87.3% on time across 769 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 773 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 LAX to ELP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 773 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 82.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 766 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to ELP, every carrier
- SkyWest on ELP to LAX, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LAX to ELP76.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.