OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Denver to Helena

594 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DEN–HLN arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay80 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.5%of scheduled flights

based on 884 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9080 min
    Cancel1.5%
    Flights884

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather10%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • 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 → HLN

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 74% to 81% on time.

  • Middays81% on time · p90 35 min · 941 flights
  • Afternoons75% on time · p90 45 min · 155 flights · limited
  • Evenings74% on time · p90 70 min · 1,080 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 83% on time.

  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 40 min · 314 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 314 flights
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 310 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 50 min · 314 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 45 min · 313 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 60 min · 314 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 310 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.