Carrier route record
OOLIT→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Little Rock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 342
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- 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 DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 342 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,748 at 79.5% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on LIT to DFW runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 49 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.34%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.4%
Every carrier on LIT to DFW, 2,658 flights
These figures cover 342 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 DFW
SkyWest flew 342 of the 2,658 flights on LIT to DFW, about 13% of it. Its 72.4% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 79.5% to American at 68.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 79.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 426 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,748 | 79.5% | 87 min | 1.95% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 142 | 72.6% | 68 min | 4.93% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 342 | 72.4% | 107 min | 2.34% | C |
| American Airlines | 426 | 68.5% | 106 min | 3.05% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.0% 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.
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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 342 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm162 flights72.2%
- 2pm–5pm30 flights76.7%
- 5pm–8pm61 flights76.3%
- 8pm–5am89 flights68.6%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 76.7% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 68.6%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 162 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LIT to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025101 flights72.7%
- Jan–Mar 2026112 flights72.2%
- Apr–Jun 202699 flights72.2%
Scale runs 65% 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 72.4% on time across 342 flights.
Quarter by quarter SkyWest on LIT to DFW held fairly steady: 72.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 72.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 72.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of half a point 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 86.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.0%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on LIT to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on LIT to DFW often beats the schedule: 109 of 333 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 92 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early109 flights32.7%
- Within 15 min132 flights39.6%
- 15–29 min late26 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.2%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 84 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 17 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on LIT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 21 hours 33 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 extreme weather.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 21 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 20 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 December 2025 | 14 hours 8 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 March 2026 | 6 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 5 April 2026 | 6 hours 14 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 9,829 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Extreme weather
- 33%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 38% 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 6.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,829 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.34% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.6% 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 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.0% on time across 342 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. 342 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. 342 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 72.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 333 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
- LIT to DFW, every carrier
- SkyWest on DFW to LIT, the return leg
- Envoy Air on LIT to DFW79.5%
- PSA Airlines on LIT to DFW72.6%
- American Airlines on LIT to DFW68.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
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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.