Carrier route record
OOMRY→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Monterey to Denver
- Flights
- 626
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MRY to DEN 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 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 626 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MRY to DEN record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 156 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 621 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.16%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
92.9%
Every carrier on MRY to DEN, 729 flights
These figures cover 626 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on MRY to DEN
SkyWest flew 626 of the 729 flights on MRY to DEN, most of the route. Its 92.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 92.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 93.1% to SkyWest at 92.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 103 | 93.1% | 122 min | 0.97% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 626 | 92.9% | 85 min | 0.16% | A+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on MRY to DEN
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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 626 flights.
- 5am–8am261 flights96.9%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm363 flights90.0%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 90.0% on time against 96.9% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MRY to DEN through the year
June is the worst month at 90.0% on time, 8 points below January, the best at 98.4%. 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 63 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 95.5% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 90.0%, a spread of 6 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MRY to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on MRY to DEN often beats the schedule: 365 of 621 completed flights, 59%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 44 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early365 flights58.8%
- Within 15 min212 flights34.1%
- 15–29 min late18 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late6 flights1.0%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late10 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 621 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MRY to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 November 2025, 6 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 November 2025 | 6 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 December 2025 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 February 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 3,747 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,754 of the 3,747 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,747 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 96.9% on time here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.16%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
The 959 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.5% on time across 622 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. 626 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 MRY to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 626 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 92.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 621 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.