Carrier route record

OOLIT→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Little Rock to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 403
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on LIT to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 403 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,656 at 74.7% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on LIT to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 72 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 392 completed flights

Avg delay

99 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.48%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

73.2%

Every carrier on LIT to DFW, 2,670 flights

These figures cover 403 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.0% 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 LIT to DFW

SkyWest flew 403 of the 2,670 flights on LIT to DFW, about 15% of it. Its 70.4% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 75.9% to American at 70.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

On-time performance by carrier on LIT to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlinesthin sample	92	75.9%	78 min	5.43%	B−
Envoy Air	1,656	74.7%	76 min	2.36%	C
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	403	70.4%	99 min	2.48%	C
American Airlines	519	70.0%	104 min	3.28%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 11 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm162 flights72.2%
2pm–5pm65 flights63.5%
5pm–8pm87 flights74.1%
8pm–5am89 flights68.6%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 74.1% on time. The full set of windows spans 11 points.

Across the year

SkyWest on LIT to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202591 flights63.6%
Oct–Dec 2025101 flights72.7%
Jan–Mar 2026112 flights72.2%
Apr–Jun 202699 flights72.2%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. 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 70.4% on time across 403 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on LIT to DFW held fairly steady: 63.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 72.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 72.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 72.2% 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 57.6%. 25 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 12,000 reported delay minutes.

Extreme weather
41%
Carrier
31%
Late-arriving aircraft
20%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 41% 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 6.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,531 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.

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. 13.0% 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 304 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.0% on time across 403 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 403 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 DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 403 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 70.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 392 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.

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