Carrier route record

OOOKC→LGA

SkyWest Airlines · Oklahoma City to New York

Flights: 171
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on OKC to LGA 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 171 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's OKC to LGA record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 168 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.75%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.8%

Every carrier on OKC to LGA, 810 flights

These figures cover 171 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 LGA

SkyWest flew 171 of the 810 flights on OKC to LGA, about 21% of it. Its 89.3% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 89.3% to Republic at 78.4%.

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 OKC to LGA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	171	89.3%	70 min	1.75%	A
Republic Airways	639	78.4%	108 min	5.95%	B−

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 171 flights.

5am–8am126 flights88.6%
8am–11am45 flights91.1%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

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

The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 91.1% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.

Across the year

SkyWest on OKC to LGA through the year

Jul–Sep 202592 flights95.5%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights82.3%

Scale runs 75% 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 89.3% on time across 171 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on OKC to LGA logged 92 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 79 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 89.3% 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 77% of the 1,268 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
77%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
9%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,268 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, 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 973 of the 1,268 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.75% 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 4.2% 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.

The 1,341 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.5% on time across 171 flights, 23 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 23 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 171 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 LGA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 171 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 89.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 168 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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