Carrier route record
OOOMA→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Omaha to Denver
- Flights
- 425
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on OMA to DEN 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 425 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,284 at 78.2% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's OMA to DEN record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 420 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.8%
Every carrier on OMA to DEN, 3,325 flights
These figures cover 425 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 OMA to DEN
SkyWest flew 425 of the 3,325 flights on OMA to DEN, about 13% of it. Its 85.0% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.0% to Frontier at 69.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 78.2% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 71.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,384 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 425 | 85.0% | 80 min | 0.71% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 1,284 | 78.2% | 74 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 1,384 | 71.8% | 62 min | 0.51% | C+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 232 | 69.7% | 119 min | 0.43% | C+ |
United leads Southwest by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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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 42 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am150 flights90.5%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm178 flights94.4%
- 2pm–5pm22 flights—
- 5pm–8pm75 flights52.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 52.7% on time, against 94.4% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 178 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on OMA to DEN through the year
August is the worst month at 72.3% on time, 23 points below November, the best at 95.6%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 49 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on OMA to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on OMA to DEN often beats the schedule: 219 of 420 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 63 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 17 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early219 flights52.1%
- Within 15 min138 flights32.9%
- 15–29 min late18 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late17 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 420 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 55 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 6 made it up before arrival. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on OMA to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 6 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 December 2025 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 March 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
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 5,017 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,914 of the 5,017 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,017 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.71%, 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
6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 472 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 88.4% on time across 424 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 425 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 OMA to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 425 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 85.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 420 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OMA to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to OMA, the return leg
- United Airlines on OMA to DEN78.2%
- Southwest Airlines on OMA to DEN71.8%
- Frontier Airlines on OMA to DEN69.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.