Carrier route record
OOLIT→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Little Rock to Denver
- Flights
- 985
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 63%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LIT to DEN 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 985 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 LIT to DEN from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 976 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on LIT to DEN, 1,572 flights
These figures cover 985 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 LIT to DEN
SkyWest flew 985 of the 1,572 flights on LIT to DEN, most of the route. Its 79.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 83.3% to Frontier at 77.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 365 | 83.3% | 70 min | 1.10% | B |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 102 | 83.2% | 69 min | 0.98% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 985 | 79.3% | 77 min | 0.61% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 120 | 77.5% | 110 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on LIT to DEN
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am262 flights83.4%
- 11am–2pm359 flights88.5%
- 2pm–5pm362 flights67.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.5% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 67.0%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LIT to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 62.3% on time, 31 points below November, the best at 93.3%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 70.9%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LIT to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on LIT to DEN often beats the schedule: 395 of 976 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 202 late arrivals split 64 under half an hour, 49 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 89 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early395 flights40.5%
- Within 15 min379 flights38.8%
- 15–29 min late64 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late49 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late34 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 976 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 191 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 43 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LIT to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 April 2026, 19 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2026 | 19 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 7 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 December 2025 | 7 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 6 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 February 2026 | 5 hours 23 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 16,000 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,481 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,588 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.61%, 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
9.1% 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.
The 771 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 85.7% on time across 986 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 985 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 LIT to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 985 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 79.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 976 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LIT to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to LIT, the return leg
- Southwest Airlines on LIT to DEN83.3%
- United Airlines on LIT to DEN83.2%
- Frontier Airlines on LIT to DEN77.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.