SkyWest Airlines in May 2024

78.0%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 May 2024, SkyWest Airlines (OO) reported 62,107 scheduled domestic flights. 78.0% arrived on time, 1.4% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 72.3% on time and 1.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 5.7 points above the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 44%, national aviation system 19% and late-arriving aircraft 19%.

On time 78.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.3%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	OO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, May 2024
Arrived on time	78.0%	—	77.4%	72.3%
Departed on time	80.3%	—	79.5%	73.4%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	1.8%	1.4%
Average arrival delay	11.6 min	—	9.6 min	14.0 min
Scheduled flights a day	2,070	—	2,340	20,325
Scheduled flights	62,107	—	854,130	609,743

242 airports and 1,229 routes had OO flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ORD Chicago	5,073	64.1%	31.5 min	3.1%
DEN Denver	4,672	79.8%	7.7 min	0.4%
LAX Los Angeles	3,142	81.8%	5.0 min	0.0%
SLC Salt Lake City	2,710	86.7%	0.9 min	0.1%
SFO San Francisco	2,310	79.5%	3.5 min	0.2%
SEA Seattle	2,260	84.5%	2.6 min	0.0%
PHX Phoenix	2,232	87.4%	0.7 min	0.0%
DTW Detroit	2,100	79.4%	10.8 min	0.1%
MSP Minneapolis	2,053	84.1%	6.2 min	0.0%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	1,739	70.6%	16.3 min	5.9%
IAH Houston	1,255	61.7%	27.4 min	8.2%
BOI Boise	1,063	81.6%	4.3 min	0.0%
PDX Portland	1,004	87.6%	0.5 min	0.0%
SAN San Diego	982	79.2%	6.3 min	0.3%
ATL Atlanta	760	71.4%	23.5 min	0.8%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	44.4%	29.8%	493,692
Late-arriving aircraft	18.9%	43.0%	210,313
National Aviation System	19.2%	20.1%	213,722
Extreme weather	17.4%	7.0%	193,691
Security	0.1%	0.1%	1,418

1,112,836 delay minutes on 12,590 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 May 2024?

78.0% of 62,107 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 72.3% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.