Carrier route record
OOXNA→DEN
SkyWest Airlines · Bentonville to Denver
- Flights
- 825
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 61%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on XNA to DEN lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 825 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's XNA to DEN record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 816 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.5%
Every carrier on XNA to DEN, 1,345 flights
These figures cover 825 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on XNA to DEN
SkyWest flew 825 of the 1,345 flights on XNA to DEN, most of the route. Its 81.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 82.0% to United at 80.7%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 150 | 82.0% | 106 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 825 | 81.7% | 84 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 370 | 80.7% | 68 min | 0.54% | B+ |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on XNA to DEN
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am103 flights89.3%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm360 flights91.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm362 flights70.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 91.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 70.0%. 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on XNA to DEN through the year
June is the worst month at 74.7% on time, 18 points below November, the best at 92.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Thursday the weakest at 78.4%, a spread of 7 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on XNA to DEN runs when it is late
SkyWest on XNA to DEN often beats the schedule: 360 of 816 completed flights, 44%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 149 late arrivals split 45 under half an hour, 46 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early360 flights44.1%
- Within 15 min307 flights37.6%
- 15–29 min late45 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late46 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late24 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 816 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 123 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 49 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 DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on XNA to DEN
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 20 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across January, July, September and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2026 | 20 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 11 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 January 2026 | 7 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 September 2025 | 7 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 March 2026 | 6 hours 12 minutes | National Airspace System |
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 13,000 reported delay minutes.
- 34%National Airspace System
- 31%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
34% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 4,210 minutes out of 13,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 12,548 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
The 616 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 84.5% on time across 826 flights, within 3 points 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. 825 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 XNA to DEN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 825 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 81.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 816 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- XNA to DEN, every carrier
- SkyWest on DEN to XNA, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on XNA to DEN82.0%
- United Airlines on XNA to DEN80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.