OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Denver to Lincoln

423 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DEN–LNK arrive on time 70% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate70%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay80 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.2%of scheduled flights

based on 1,602 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9080 min
    Cancel1.2%
    Flights1,602

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline30%
  • Weather8%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft39%
  • 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 → LNK

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 — 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 35 min · 637 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 50 min · 595 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 90 min · 90 flights · limited
  • Overnights67% on time · p90 80 min · 588 flights
  • Evenings60% on time · p90 120 min · 587 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 76% on time.

  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 70 min · 360 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 65 min · 358 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 70 min · 349 flights
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 60 min · 359 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 65 min · 359 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 85 min · 358 flights
  • Thursdays68% on time · p90 80 min · 354 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.