Carrier route record

OOMHK→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Manhattan to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 369
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 34%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on MHK to DFW earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 369 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MHK to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

91 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

85.5%

Every carrier on MHK to DFW, 1,087 flights

These figures cover 369 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% 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 MHK to DFW

SkyWest flew 369 of the 1,087 flights on MHK to DFW, about 34% of it. Its 84.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.2% to SkyWest at 84.1%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on MHK to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	718	86.2%	76 min	2.79%	A
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	369	84.1%	91 min	2.17%	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 17 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–8am125 flights91.9%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm122 flights84.3%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm122 flights75.4%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 75.4% for the evening window. That is 17 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 125 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on MHK to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 2025272 flights85.9%
Oct–Dec 202597 flights79.4%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 84.1% on time across 369 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on MHK to DFW logged 272 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 97 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 84.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 92.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.6%. 19 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

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 5,166 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
15%
Extreme weather
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,166 reported delay minutes.

34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,166 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations sit at 2.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.54%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

At 431 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 76.5% on time across 368 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 369 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 MHK to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 369 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 84.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 359 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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