Carrier route record
OOOKC→LGA
SkyWest Airlines · Oklahoma City to New York
- Flights
- 109
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on OKC to LGA 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 109 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's OKC to LGA record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 109 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.4%
Every carrier on OKC to LGA, 743 flights
These figures cover 109 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on OKC to LGA
SkyWest flew 109 of the 743 flights on OKC to LGA, about 15% of it. Its 86.2% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.2% to Republic at 78.1%.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 109 | 86.2% | 65 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Republic Airways | 634 | 78.1% | 110 min | 5.84% | B− |
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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 109 flights.
- 5am–8am73 flights83.6%
- 8am–11am36 flights91.7%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.7% of the time, against 83.6% for the early window. That is 8 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 73 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on OKC to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights82.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.2% on time across 109 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on OKC to LGA logged 30 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 86.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on OKC to LGA runs when it is late
SkyWest on OKC to LGA often beats the schedule: 30 of 109 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 15 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early30 flights27.5%
- Within 15 min64 flights58.7%
- 15–29 min late7 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late4 flights3.7%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.9%
- 2+ hours late3 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 109 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 9 of 109 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on OKC to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 December 2025, 3 hours 46 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 December 2025 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 October 2025 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 1 hour 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 December 2025 | 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 973 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 973 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 681 of the 973 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 3.7% 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 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 63.5% on time across 109 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. 109 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. 109 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 86.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 109 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OKC to LGA, every carrier
- SkyWest on LGA to OKC, the return leg
- Republic Airways on OKC to LGA78.1%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.