Carrier route record

OOMFE→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · McAllen to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 101
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on MFE to DFW earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 101 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 729 at 80.9% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MFE to DFW record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 103 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 99 completed flights

Avg delay

50 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.98%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.7%

Every carrier on MFE to DFW, 2,409 flights

These figures cover 101 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on MFE to DFW

SkyWest flew 101 of the 2,409 flights on MFE to DFW, about 4% of it. Its 87.9% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 87.9% to American at 77.1%.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 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 MFE to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	101	87.9%	50 min	1.98%	A
Envoy Air	729	80.9%	89 min	2.06%	B
American Airlines	1,579	77.1%	128 min	3.55%	B−

American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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 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 101 flights.

5am–8am32 flights90.6%
8am–11am27 flights—
11am–2pm38 flights86.1%
2pm–5pm4 flights—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 90.6% on time for the 5am–8am window against 86.1% for 11am–2pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 38 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on MFE to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202555 flights90.7%
Oct–Dec 202541 flights85.4%
Jan–Mar 20265 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 87.9% on time across 101 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on MFE to DFW logged 55 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 41 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 5 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 87.9% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 594 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
51%
Extreme weather
21%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
13%

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 594 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, 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 303 of the 594 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.98% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 469 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 88.9% on time across 101 flights, within about 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. 101 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 MFE to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 101 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 87.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 99 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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