Carrier route record
OOLAX→MRY
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Monterey
- Flights
- 719
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- 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 MRY 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 719 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's LAX to MRY record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 712 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
88.9%
Every carrier on LAX to MRY, 842 flights
These figures cover 719 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 MRY
SkyWest flew 719 of the 842 flights on LAX to MRY, most of the route. Its 90.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 88.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 90.3% to United at 80.5%. 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) | 719 | 90.3% | 57 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 123 | 80.5% | 78 min | 0.00% | B+ |
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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 719 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am359 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm177 flights94.3%
- 5pm–8pm33 flights87.9%
- 8pm–5am150 flights89.9%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 94.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 87.9%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 359 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LAX to MRY through the year
June is the worst month at 83.3% on time, 17 points below May, the best at 100.0%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 94.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 86.7%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LAX to MRY runs when it is late
SkyWest on LAX to MRY often beats the schedule: 225 of 712 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 69 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early225 flights31.6%
- Within 15 min418 flights58.7%
- 15–29 min late21 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late24 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 712 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. Only 11 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LAX to MRY
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 December 2025, 3 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 December 2025 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 January 2026 | 3 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 December 2025 | 2 hours 35 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 July 2026 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 3,930 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,930 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 3,930 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,368 of the 3,930 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
At 266 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.8% on time across 717 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. 719 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 MRY
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 719 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 90.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 712 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.