Carrier route record
OOLBB→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 400
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LBB to DFW lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 400 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 389 completed flights
Avg delay
86 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.75%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.1%
Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 400 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on LBB to DFW
SkyWest flew 400 of the 2,617 flights on LBB to DFW, about 15% of it. Its 79.2% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.0% to PSA at 75.1%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 289 | 87.0% | 127 min | 4.50% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,571 | 86.7% | 93 min | 1.21% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 400 | 79.2% | 86 min | 2.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.1% | 126 min | 5.88% | B− |
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am81 flights75.6%
- 8am–11am54 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm153 flights82.9%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm54 flights80.0%
- 8pm–5am58 flights68.4%
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 84.6% of the time, against 68.4% 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 153 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LBB to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202531 flights77.4%
- Oct–Dec 202571 flights84.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 2026109 flights75.7%
- Jul–Sep 202699 flights81.8%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.2% on time across 400 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on LBB to DFW held fairly steady: 77.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 76.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 75.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 81.8% in Jul–Sep 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 87.0% on time and Thursday the weakest at 73.8%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LBB to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on LBB to DFW often beats the schedule: 152 of 389 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on LBB to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 44 of its 81 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 25 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early152 flights39.1%
- Within 15 min156 flights40.1%
- 15–29 min late25 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late25 flights6.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 389 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 86 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LBB to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 June 2026, 5 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 October 2025 | 4 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 May 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 June 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Extreme weather |
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 6,924 reported delay minutes.
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 4.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,924 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.75%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
11.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 78.8% on time across 402 flights, within half a point 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. 400 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: treat all of this as provisional. 400 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 79.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 389 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LBB to DFW, every carrier
- SkyWest on DFW to LBB, the return leg
- American Airlines on LBB to DFW87.0%
- Envoy Air on LBB to DFW86.7%
- PSA Airlines on LBB to DFW75.1%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.