Carrier route record

OOPHX→ICT

SkyWest Airlines · Phoenix to Wichita

Flights: 290
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 39%
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 ICT sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on PHX to ICT runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 42 extra late arrivals.

On time

73.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 286 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.69%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.9%

Every carrier on PHX to ICT, 742 flights

These figures cover 290 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 PHX to ICT

SkyWest flew 290 of the 742 flights on PHX to ICT, about 39% of it. Its 73.4% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Southwest at 82.8% to SkyWest at 73.4%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHX to ICT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	166	82.8%	38 min	1.81%	B
Envoy Airthin sample	286	79.5%	50 min	0.70%	B+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	290	73.4%	62 min	0.69%	C+

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 11 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–8am—
8am–11am180 flights75.4%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm56 flights64.8%
8pm–5am53 flights75.0%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.8% on time, against 75.4% for the 8am–11am 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 180 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on PHX to ICT through the year

Jul–Sep 202557 flights65.5%
Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026123 flights73.6%
Apr–Jun 202684 flights79.8%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 73.4% on time across 290 flights.

SkyWest on PHX to ICT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.5%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 97 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Thursday the weakest at 68.2%. 11 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 55% of the 4,737 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
55%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
Extreme weather
9%
National Airspace System
9%
Security
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, 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 2,606 of the 4,737 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,737 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.69%, 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

7.7% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 870 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.0% on time across 289 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 290 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 ICT

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 290 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 73.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 286 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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