Carrier route record
OOMRY→LAX
SkyWest Airlines · Monterey to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 717
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- 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 LAX earns an A+. More than four flights in five 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 717 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MRY to LAX record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 712 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
86.6%
Every carrier on MRY to LAX, 839 flights
These figures cover 717 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 LAX
SkyWest flew 717 of the 839 flights on MRY to LAX, most of the route. Its 86.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 86.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.8% to United at 85.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 717 | 86.8% | 64 min | 0.70% | A+ |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 122 | 85.2% | 77 min | 0.00% | A+ |
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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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am207 flights87.0%
- 8am–11am155 flights79.1%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm236 flights88.1%
- 5pm–8pm118 flights93.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 93.9% on time. The full set of windows spans 15 points.
Across the year
SkyWest on MRY to LAX through the year
August is the worst month at 76.7% on time, 17 points below June, the best at 93.3%. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.5%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MRY to LAX runs when it is late
SkyWest on MRY to LAX often beats the schedule: 262 of 712 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 94 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 30 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early262 flights36.8%
- Within 15 min356 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late40 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late24 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights2.7%
- 2+ hours late11 flights1.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 712 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 35 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MRY to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 September 2025, 10 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across September, March, December and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2025 | 10 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 March 2026 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 December 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 February 2026 | 3 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 December 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 5,976 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,976 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,103 of the 5,976 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.70%, 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 4.2% 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.
At 266 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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 90.3% on time across 719 flights, 4 points above 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. 717 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 LAX
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 717 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 86.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 712 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.