Carrier route record
OOSBN→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · South Bend to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 788
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 80%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on SBN to DFW 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 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 788 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on SBN to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 768 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.4%
Every carrier on SBN to DFW, 984 flights
These figures cover 788 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% 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 SBN to DFW
SkyWest flew 788 of the 984 flights on SBN to DFW, most of the route. Its 73.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 73.8% to PSA at 71.5%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 788 | 73.8% | 112 min | 2.03% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 196 | 71.5% | 101 min | 4.59% | C− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on SBN to DFW
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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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am262 flights72.8%
- 8am–11am103 flights78.4%
- 11am–2pm62 flights85.2%
- 2pm–5pm116 flights71.1%
- 5pm–8pm245 flights71.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.2% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 71.1%. 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 262 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on SBN to DFW through the year
January is the weak month at 65.5% on time, against 83.9% in September. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.0%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on SBN to DFW runs when it is late
SkyWest on SBN to DFW often beats the schedule: 321 of 768 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 201 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 49 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 96 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early321 flights41.8%
- Within 15 min246 flights32.0%
- 15–29 min late56 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late49 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late41 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late55 flights7.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 768 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
36 of 194 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 43 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on SBN to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 June 2026, 18 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 June 2026 | 18 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 January 2026 | 17 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 December 2025 | 15 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 9 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 8 hours 36 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 23,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 23%Extreme weather
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 3.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 22,507 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 23,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.03% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.51%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.5% 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.
The 846 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.
The return leg runs 72.7% on time across 788 flights, within about a point 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. 788 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 SBN to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 788 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 73.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 768 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SBN to DFW, every carrier
- SkyWest on DFW to SBN, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on SBN to DFW71.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.