OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Birmingham to Denver

1,083 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BHM–DEN arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 1,035 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.5%
    Flights728
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights307

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline36%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)42%
  • Late aircraft20%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly BHM → DEN

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 89% on time.

  • Mornings89% on time · p90 15 min · 1,504 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 35 min · 522 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 55 min · 1,173 flights
  • Evenings52% on time · p90 100 min · 52 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 80% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 35 min · 471 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 470 flights
  • Mondays81% on time · p90 35 min · 471 flights
  • Thursdays81% on time · p90 30 min · 462 flights
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 440 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 35 min · 467 flights
  • Sundays80% on time · p90 40 min · 470 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.