Carrier route record
OOSPS→DFW
SkyWest Airlines · Wichita Falls to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 249
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on SPS to DFW lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 249 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on SPS 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
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 240 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
83.3%
Every carrier on SPS to DFW, 729 flights
These figures cover 249 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 SPS to DFW
SkyWest flew 249 of the 729 flights on SPS to DFW, about 34% of it. Its 79.2% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.4% to SkyWest at 79.2%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 480 | 85.4% | 108 min | 4.17% | A− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 249 | 79.2% | 122 min | 3.61% | 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 249 flights.
- 5am–8am125 flights82.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm124 flights76.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 82.4% on time for the 5am–8am window against 76.0% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 125 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on SPS to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 2025184 flights78.3%
- Oct–Dec 202565 flights81.5%
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 79.2% on time across 249 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on SPS to DFW logged 184 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 65 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 79.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.7%. 23 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 71% of the 6,100 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.
- 71%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,100 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 4,329 of the 6,100 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.7% 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 113 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 runs 79.1% on time across 248 flights, within half 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. 249 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 SPS to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 240 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.