Carrier route record

OOMAF→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Midland to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 782
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on MAF to DFW lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 782 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,769 at 83.8% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MAF to DFW record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 755 completed flights

Avg delay

113 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.07%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.7%

Every carrier on MAF to DFW, 2,933 flights

These figures cover 782 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% 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 DFW

SkyWest flew 782 of the 2,933 flights on MAF to DFW, about 27% of it. Its 81.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.8% to PSA at 78.8%.

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 MAF to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,769	83.8%	76 min	2.71%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	782	81.9%	113 min	3.07%	B−
PSA Airlines	382	78.8%	123 min	5.76%	B−

PSA Airlines cancels 5.8% 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 22 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am350 flights88.0%
8am–11am188 flights86.0%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm154 flights71.8%
5pm–8pm90 flights65.9%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.0% of the time, against 65.9% for the evening window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 350 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on MAF to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, August worst

August is the worst month at 67.3% on time, 26 points below February, the best at 93.6%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 76.0%. 13 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 43% of the 16,000 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.

Carrier
43%
Extreme weather
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
18%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 30% 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 4.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 15,508 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 6,678 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.07%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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. 10.7% 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 309 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.0% on time across 782 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 782 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 MAF to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.07% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 755 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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