SkyWest Airlines in August 2023

83.5%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In August 2023, SkyWest Airlines (OO) reported 58,093 scheduled domestic flights. 83.5% arrived on time, 0.7% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 76.9% on time and 1.5% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 6.6 points above the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 61%, late-arriving aircraft 23% and extreme weather 11%.

On time 83.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.6%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by SkyWest Airlines in August 2023.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	OO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Aug 2023
Arrived on time	83.5%	—	77.4%	76.9%
Departed on time	85.6%	—	79.5%	76.7%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.8%	1.5%
Average arrival delay	4.6 min	—	9.6 min	8.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	1,936	—	2,340	20,100
Scheduled flights	58,093	—	854,130	602,987

241 airports and 1,081 routes had OO flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ORD Chicago	4,769	76.4%	9.3 min	1.3%
DEN Denver	4,267	76.8%	10.1 min	0.8%
LAX Los Angeles	3,091	89.0%	-2.2 min	0.7%
SFO San Francisco	2,860	83.0%	5.8 min	0.6%
SLC Salt Lake City	2,658	91.0%	-3.6 min	0.1%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	2,337	86.8%	-0.7 min	0.7%
SEA Seattle	2,122	86.2%	0.9 min	0.0%
MSP Minneapolis	1,997	91.0%	-4.8 min	0.2%
DTW Detroit	1,622	81.8%	5.7 min	1.4%
PHX Phoenix	1,484	89.8%	-2.7 min	0.4%
SAN San Diego	861	77.5%	8.3 min	0.3%
PDX Portland	842	85.6%	2.9 min	0.1%
IAH Houston	835	81.9%	8.4 min	0.1%
BOI Boise	738	85.4%	2.6 min	0.3%
ASE Aspen	628	75.0%	12.8 min	0.8%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of OO flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	60.9%	36.7%	437,942
Late-arriving aircraft	22.6%	42.2%	162,509
National Aviation System	5.3%	15.7%	38,311
Extreme weather	11.0%	5.1%	78,921
Security	0.2%	0.2%	1,086

718,769 delay minutes on 9,041 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of SkyWest Airlines flights were on time in August 2023?

83.5% of 58,093 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 76.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SkyWest Airlines · methodology · corrections.