Carrier route record

OOOMA→PHX

SkyWest Airlines · Omaha to Phoenix

Flights: 252
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 5

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

SkyWest on OMA to PHX lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's OMA to PHX record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 63 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 249 completed flights

Avg delay

97 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.19%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.8%

Every carrier on OMA to PHX, 2,007 flights

These figures cover 252 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 OMA to PHX

SkyWest flew 252 of the 2,007 flights on OMA to PHX, about 13% of it. Its 83.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 100.0% to Southwest at 79.8%. Three 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.

On-time performance by carrier on OMA to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	3	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	271	90.0%	127 min	0.37%	A+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	252	83.9%	97 min	1.19%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	266	80.4%	107 min	0.38%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,215	79.8%	53 min	0.58%	B+

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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am41 flights77.5%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm167 flights87.3%
5pm–8pm44 flights77.3%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 87.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 77.3%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 167 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on OMA to PHX through the year

Oct–Dec 2025135 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights85.1%
Apr–Jun 202649 flights89.8%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 83.9% on time across 252 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on OMA to PHX held fairly steady: 81.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 97.6% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 66.7%. 31 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 78% of the 3,885 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
78%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%
National Airspace System
11%

The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, 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 3,035 of the 3,885 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,885 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.19% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.4% 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.

The 1,037 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 runs 86.5% on time across 252 flights, within 3 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. 252 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 PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 252 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 83.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 249 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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