On-Time Report

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Carrier month · January 2024

SkyWest Airlines in January 2024

72.4%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 January 2024, SkyWest Airlines (OO) reported 56,814 scheduled domestic flights. 72.4% arrived on time, 4.2% were cancelled and 0.4% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% on time and 3.7% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 0.5 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 46%, extreme weather 22% and late-arriving aircraft 20%.

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by SkyWest Airlines in January 2024.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierOO, 12 months to Jul 2026All carriers, Jan 2024
Arrived on time72.4%—77.4%72.9%
Departed on time75.0%—79.5%74.0%
Cancelled4.2%—1.8%3.7%
Average arrival delay15.2 min—9.6 min10.4 min
Scheduled flights a day1,894—2,34018,242
Scheduled flights56,814—854,130547,271

236 airports and 1,160 routes had OO flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

AirportDeparturesOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ORD Chicago4,11555.5%28.0 min10.6%
DEN Denver3,94275.0%10.9 min3.4%
LAX Los Angeles3,27183.4%1.7 min0.8%
SFO San Francisco2,94979.3%6.3 min0.6%
SLC Salt Lake City2,75678.4%8.7 min1.4%
PHX Phoenix2,16783.8%2.9 min0.7%
MSP Minneapolis2,13771.8%15.9 min2.6%
SEA Seattle1,98673.5%16.1 min2.8%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth1,72173.3%8.9 min5.6%
DTW Detroit1,48453.7%44.2 min7.7%
IAH Houston1,01669.2%16.7 min6.4%
ASE Aspen97158.6%23.9 min11.0%
SAN San Diego95280.4%4.8 min0.2%
PDX Portland83469.7%14.6 min5.9%
ATL Atlanta80667.1%31.8 min1.6%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesAll carriers, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier46.0%32.6%581,854
Late-arriving aircraft19.7%39.0%249,238
National Aviation System11.8%17.9%149,045
Extreme weather22.4%10.3%283,294
Security0.2%0.2%2,353
1,265,784 delay minutes on 13,082 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

What share of SkyWest Airlines flights were on time in January 2024?

72.4% of 56,814 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SkyWest Airlines · methodology · corrections.