OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Denver to Grand Rapids

1,015 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DEN–GRR arrive on time 69% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate69%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,095 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlinesbest
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights729
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time61%
    Median5 min
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights366

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline34%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DEN → GRR

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 61% to 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 533 flights
  • Middays81% on time · p90 30 min · 1,450 flights
  • Afternoons73% on time · p90 45 min · 430 flights
  • Evenings61% on time · p90 75 min · 1,353 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 77% on time.

  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 495 flights
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 598 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 495 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 45 min · 532 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 45 min · 535 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 45 min · 615 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 514 flights
Advertisement

Keep exploring

Related pages

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.