Carrier route record
OOLRD→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Laredo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 110
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on LRD 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 about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 110 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 LRD 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
77.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 101 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.18%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.6%
Every carrier on LRD to DFW, 1,561 flights
These figures cover 110 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 LRD to DFW
SkyWest flew 110 of the 1,561 flights on LRD to DFW, about 7% of it. Its 77.2% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 86.4% to SkyWest at 77.2%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 86.4% | 368 min | 8.33% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,427 | 84.0% | 76 min | 3.01% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 110 | 77.2% | 63 min | 8.18% | 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 29 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–8am37 flights93.9%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm35 flights64.5%
- 8pm–5am38 flights73.0%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.5% on time, against 93.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 38 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on LRD to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202536 flights62.5%
- Jan–Mar 202637 flights93.9%
- Apr–Jun 202637 flights75.0%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. 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 77.2% on time across 110 flights.
SkyWest on LRD to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 93.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 62.5%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 37 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
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 1,450 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 21%Extreme weather
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
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 1,450 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, 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 520 of the 1,450 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 8.18%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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. 9.9% 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 396 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 77.5% on time across 110 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. 110 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 LRD to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.18% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 101 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.