Carrier route record

OOOKC→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Oklahoma City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 228
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on OKC 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 228 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,087 at 79.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's OKC to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 221 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.19%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.5%

Every carrier on OKC to DFW, 3,175 flights

These figures cover 228 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 OKC to DFW

SkyWest flew 228 of the 3,175 flights on OKC to DFW, about 7% of it. Its 84.6% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.6% to PSA at 65.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 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 OKC to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	228	84.6%	90 min	2.19%	B
Envoy Air	1,087	79.5%	65 min	3.22%	B−
American Airlines	1,772	77.7%	98 min	3.33%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	88	65.1%	112 min	5.68%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.3% 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 15 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am58 flights87.5%
8am–11am130 flights87.2%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm40 flights72.5%
5pm–8pm—
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 87.5% of the time, against 72.5% for the afternoon window. That is 15 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 130 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on OKC to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202531 flights100.0%
Oct–Dec 202563 flights88.5%
Jan–Mar 202613 flights—
Apr–Jun 2026121 flights78.3%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. 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 84.6% on time across 228 flights.

SkyWest on OKC to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 78.3%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 76 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

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 3,047 reported delay minutes.

Extreme weather
34%
Carrier
34%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
National Airspace System
6%

Extreme weather accounts for 34% 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 5.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,047 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.88%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.8% 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 175 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 86.9% on time across 228 flights, within 2 points 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. 228 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 OKC to DFW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 228 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 84.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 221 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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