Carrier route record
OOMAF→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Midland to Denver
- Flights
- 1,198
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MAF to DEN lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,198 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MAF 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
78.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,176 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
81.7%
Every carrier on MAF to DEN, 1,463 flights
These figures cover 1,198 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 MAF to DEN
SkyWest flew 1,198 of the 1,463 flights on MAF to DEN, most of the route. Its 78.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 95.4% to SkyWest at 78.7%. 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 | 265 | 95.4% | 66 min | 0.75% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,198 | 78.7% | 89 min | 1.17% | B |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on MAF to DEN
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 28 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–8am233 flights90.0%
- 8am–11am167 flights80.7%
- 11am–2pm290 flights82.2%
- 2pm–5pm189 flights85.0%
- 5pm–8pm319 flights62.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.0% on time, against 90.0% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 319 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MAF to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 65.0% on time, 21 points below September, the best at 85.5%. 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 113 flights.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 83.7% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 76.4%. 7 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 48%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, 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 11,000 of the 22,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 22,329 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.67%.
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. 9.1% 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.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 81.1% on time across 1,197 flights, within 2 points 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 1,198 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. September runs 85.5% on time and August 65.0%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 1,176 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.