Carrier route record
OOTVC→DTW
SkyWest Airlines · Traverse City to Detroit
- Flights
- 693
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 65%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on TVC to DTW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 693 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on TVC to DTW runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 676 completed flights
Avg delay
108 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.1%
Every carrier on TVC to DTW, 1,062 flights
These figures cover 693 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 TVC to DTW
SkyWest flew 693 of the 1,062 flights on TVC to DTW, most of the route. Its 72.2% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 83.4% to SkyWest at 72.2%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 369 | 83.4% | 76 min | 2.17% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 693 | 72.2% | 108 min | 2.31% | C |
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am90 flights87.8%
- 11am–2pm182 flights70.5%
- 2pm–5pm92 flights75.0%
- 5pm–8pm328 flights67.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.8% of the time, against 67.8% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 328 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on TVC to DTW through the year
January is the weak month at 42.3% on time, against 90.3% 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. August was the busiest month here, with 91 flights.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 80.4% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 66.7%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on TVC to DTW runs when it is late
SkyWest on TVC to DTW often beats the schedule: 180 of 676 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on TVC to DTW is late it tends to be very late: 101 of its 188 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 42 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early180 flights26.6%
- Within 15 min308 flights45.6%
- 15–29 min late40 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late47 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late59 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late42 flights6.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 676 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
37 of 201 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 24 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on TVC to DTW
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 February 2026, 18 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 February 2026 | 18 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 January 2026 | 16 hours 50 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 August 2026 | 14 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 8 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 8 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 28%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
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 4.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 20,259 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 20,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.31% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.14%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
14.9% 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.
At 207 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 runs 72.3% on time across 693 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. 693 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 TVC to DTW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 693 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 72.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 676 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TVC to DTW, every carrier
- SkyWest on DTW to TVC, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on TVC to DTW83.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW) 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.