Carrier route record

OOPHX→FAT

SkyWest Airlines · Phoenix to Fresno

Flights: 545
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 38%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on PHX to FAT sits in the middle of the pack with a B+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 545 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on PHX to FAT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 542 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.18%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.3%

Every carrier on PHX to FAT, 1,452 flights

These figures cover 545 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on PHX to FAT

SkyWest flew 545 of the 1,452 flights on PHX to FAT, about 38% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 91.4% to SkyWest at 75.8%. One 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 PHX to FAT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	105	91.4%	31 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlines	802	80.0%	87 min	0.87%	B+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)	545	75.8%	78 min	0.18%	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 30 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–8am79 flights91.1%
8am–11am4 flights—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm119 flights80.5%
5pm–8pm264 flights73.3%
8pm–5am79 flights60.8%

Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.8% on time, against 91.1% for the 5am–8am 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 264 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on PHX to FAT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.May best, February worst

February is the weak month at 56.4% on time, against 88.9% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 68.8%. 21 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 60% of the 10,000 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
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
5%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 6,143 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,158 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.1% on time here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.18%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 493 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.8% on time across 545 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 545 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 FAT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 545 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 75.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 542 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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