Carrier route record

OOSGF→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Springfield to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 123
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on SGF to DFW lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 123 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

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

On time

78.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 118 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.25%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.9%

Every carrier on SGF to DFW, 3,085 flights

These figures cover 123 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 SGF to DFW

SkyWest flew 123 of the 3,085 flights on SGF to DFW, about 4% of it. Its 78.0% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 84.7% to SkyWest at 78.0%. 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 SGF to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
PSA Airlinesthin sample	349	84.7%	110 min	6.30%	B−
Envoy Air	2,613	79.4%	77 min	1.88%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	123	78.0%	78 min	3.25%	B−

Departure window

When SkyWest runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 123 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am44 flights78.6%
11am–2pm42 flights82.1%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm25 flights—
8pm–5am12 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 82.1% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.

Across the year

SkyWest on SGF to DFW through the year

Apr–Jun 2026123 flights78.0%

Scale runs 70% 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 78.0% on time across 123 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on SGF to DFW logged 123 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 78.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 2,019 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Extreme weather
20%
Carrier
19%
National Airspace System
8%

Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,019 reported delay minutes.

53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,019 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations run at 3.25%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.6% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 364 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 88.0% on time across 123 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 123 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 SGF to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.25% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 118 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.

Key figures