Carrier route record

OOTUL→DFW

SkyWest Airlines · Tulsa to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 212
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 4

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

SkyWest on TUL to DFW lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 212 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 820 at 84.1% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's TUL to DFW record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 206 completed flights

Avg delay

92 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.83%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.8%

Every carrier on TUL to DFW, 2,848 flights

These figures cover 212 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 TUL to DFW

SkyWest flew 212 of the 2,848 flights on TUL to DFW, about 7% of it. Its 82.0% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.1% to PSA at 69.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 84.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 75.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,640 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on TUL to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	820	84.1%	60 min	3.17%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	212	82.0%	92 min	2.83%	B
American Airlines	1,640	75.0%	105 min	3.66%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	176	69.5%	82 min	6.82%	C−

American Airlines cancels 3.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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 212 flights.

5am–8am1 flights—
8am–11am121 flights88.2%
11am–2pm1 flights—
2pm–5pm10 flights—
5pm–8pm9 flights—
8pm–5am70 flights80.6%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 88.2% on time for the 8am–11am window against 80.6% for 8pm–5am. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 121 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on TUL to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202590 flights88.6%
Oct–Dec 202562 flights81.7%
Jan–Mar 202644 flights73.8%
Apr–Jun 202616 flights—

Scale runs 65% 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 82.0% on time across 212 flights.

SkyWest on TUL to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 88.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 73.8%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 71 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, Friday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 62.9%. 20 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,414 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
Extreme weather
28%
National Airspace System
15%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 28% 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 4.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,414 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, 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 1,422 of the 3,414 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 2.83%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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

8.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 237 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.3% on time across 212 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 212 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 TUL to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.83% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 206 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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