Carrier route record
OOPHX→BFL
SkyWest Airlines · Phoenix to Bakersfield
- Flights
- 930
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 70%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on PHX to BFL lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 930 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on PHX to BFL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 906 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.04%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on PHX to BFL, 1,329 flights
These figures cover 930 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on PHX to BFL
SkyWest flew 930 of the 1,329 flights on PHX to BFL, most of the route. Its 80.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.1% to American at 78.3%. Two 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 45 | 91.1% | 40 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 930 | 80.6% | 85 min | 2.04% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 354 | 78.3% | 86 min | 1.13% | B |
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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 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am100 flights97.0%
- 8am–11am248 flights78.2%
- 11am–2pm40 flights77.5%
- 2pm–5pm241 flights80.2%
- 5pm–8pm158 flights73.5%
- 8pm–5am143 flights82.4%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 97.0% of the time, against 73.5% for the evening window. That is 24 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 248 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on PHX to BFL through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 91.5% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 122 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 84.0% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 76.4%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on PHX to BFL runs when it is late
SkyWest on PHX to BFL often beats the schedule: 250 of 906 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 176 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 82 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early250 flights27.6%
- Within 15 min480 flights53.0%
- 15–29 min late56 flights6.2%
- 30–59 min late38 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late38 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 906 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 188 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 14 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on PHX to BFL
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 12 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 12 hours 18 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 March 2026 | 12 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 9 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 April 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 November 2025 | 5 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 3%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,990 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,257 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.04% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.54%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 425 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 83.2% on time across 930 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. 930 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 PHX to BFL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 930 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 80.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 906 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHX to BFL, every carrier
- SkyWest on BFL to PHX, the return leg
- American Airlines on PHX to BFL78.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.