Carrier route record
OOLAX→FAT
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Fresno
- Flights
- 765
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 79%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LAX to FAT 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 765 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's LAX to FAT record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 760 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
86.3%
Every carrier on LAX to FAT, 964 flights
These figures cover 765 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on LAX to FAT
SkyWest flew 765 of the 964 flights on LAX to FAT, most of the route. Its 87.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 86.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.0% to United at 83.9%. One 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 765 | 87.0% | 82 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 199 | 83.9% | 58 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on LAX to FAT
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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 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am364 flights88.4%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm141 flights94.2%
- 5pm–8pm31 flights96.8%
- 8pm–5am229 flights78.9%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 96.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 18 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on LAX to FAT through the year
July is the worst month at 60.7% on time, 35 points below September, the best at 95.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. November was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 82.2%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LAX to FAT runs when it is late
SkyWest on LAX to FAT often beats the schedule: 302 of 760 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 99 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early302 flights39.7%
- Within 15 min359 flights47.2%
- 15–29 min late38 flights5.0%
- 30–59 min late20 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late12 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 760 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 101 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LAX to FAT
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 15 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 15 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 July 2026 | 13 hours 40 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 June 2026 | 11 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 February 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 8,141 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,141 reported delay minutes.
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,141 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations are rare at 0.65%, below the national 1.89% 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
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
At 209 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 84.5% on time across 768 flights, within 3 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. 765 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 FAT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 765 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 87.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 760 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to FAT, every carrier
- SkyWest on FAT to LAX, the return leg
- United Airlines on LAX to FAT83.9%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.