Carrier route record
OOMAF→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Midland to Denver
- Flights
- 1,225
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MAF to DEN lands a B+, 4 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 1,225 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MAF to DEN record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 41 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,209 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.90%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.0%
Every carrier on MAF to DEN, 1,500 flights
These figures cover 1,225 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 MAF to DEN
SkyWest flew 1,225 of the 1,500 flights on MAF to DEN, most of the route. Its 81.4% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 95.6% to SkyWest at 81.4%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlinesthin sample | 275 | 95.6% | 46 min | 1.09% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,225 | 81.4% | 94 min | 0.90% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on MAF 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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am279 flights92.4%
- 8am–11am140 flights89.9%
- 11am–2pm367 flights82.9%
- 2pm–5pm127 flights87.3%
- 5pm–8pm312 flights63.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.5% on time, against 92.4% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 367 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MAF to DEN through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 71.6%. July is the strongest month at 86.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 15 points. July was the busiest month here, with 127 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 85.8% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MAF to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on MAF to DEN often beats the schedule: 419 of 1,209 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 225 late arrivals split 57 under half an hour, 68 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 100 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early419 flights34.7%
- Within 15 min565 flights46.7%
- 15–29 min late57 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late68 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late46 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late54 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,209 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 198 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 23 made it up before arrival. 50 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MAF to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 December 2025, 17 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2025 | 17 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 12 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 8 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 June 2026 | 7 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 October 2025 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 10,000 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 21,087 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 0.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 563 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 runs 81.8% on time across 1,222 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,225 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on MAF to DEN
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. July runs 86.5% on time and March 71.6%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of March before you think about anything else. 1,209 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.