Carrier route record

OOPHX→OMA

SkyWest Airlines · Phoenix to Omaha

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 PHX to OMA 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 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's PHX to OMA record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 251 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.40%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.4%

Every carrier on PHX to OMA, 2,006 flights

These figures cover 252 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 OMA

SkyWest flew 252 of the 2,006 flights on PHX to OMA, about 13% of it. Its 86.5% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 100.0% to Southwest at 74.5%. 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 PHX to OMA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	3	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	252	86.5%	78 min	0.40%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	272	84.1%	47 min	0.37%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	265	74.8%	60 min	0.38%	C+
Southwest Airlines	1,214	74.5%	53 min	0.66%	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 17 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–11am167 flights92.8%
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm59 flights76.3%
5pm–8pm3 flights—
8pm–5am18 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.8% of the time, against 76.3% for the afternoon window. That is 17 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 167 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on PHX to OMA through the year

Oct–Dec 2025135 flights84.4%
Jan–Mar 202668 flights88.1%
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 86.5% on time across 252 flights.

Quarter by quarter SkyWest on PHX to OMA held fairly steady: 84.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 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 92.5% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 79.4%. 13 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 2,642 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
10%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
2%

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 2,054 of the 2,642 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,642 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.40%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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 83.9% 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 PHX to OMA

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 86.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 251 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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