Carrier route record

OOLBB→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 438
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on LBB to DFW lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four 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 438 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on LBB to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 419 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.11%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.4%

Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,628 flights

These figures cover 438 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 LBB to DFW

SkyWest flew 438 of the 2,628 flights on LBB to DFW, about 17% of it. Its 77.3% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 85.7% to PSA at 76.8%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LBB to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	351	85.7%	136 min	4.56%	A−
Envoy Air	1,503	84.3%	93 min	1.20%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	438	77.3%	90 min	4.11%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	336	76.8%	125 min	5.65%	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–8am81 flights75.6%
8am–11am121 flights83.8%
11am–2pm125 flights77.4%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm72 flights73.0%
8pm–5am39 flights67.6%

Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 83.8% of the time, against 67.6% for the overnight 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 125 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on LBB to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025168 flights75.6%
Oct–Dec 202571 flights84.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
Apr–Jun 2026109 flights75.7%

Scale runs 65% 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 77.3% on time across 438 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on LBB to DFW held fairly steady: 75.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 75.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 70.0%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 8,525 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
Extreme weather
21%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,525 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, 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 3,131 of the 8,525 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 4.11%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 282 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 78.9% on time across 440 flights, within 2 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. 438 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 LBB to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.11% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 419 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures