OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Denver to Omaha

472 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DEN–OMA arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 3,029 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time88%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights179
  • United Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights1,382
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time71%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights1,468

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft55%
  • 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 → OMA

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 — 86% on time.

  • Mornings86% on time · p90 20 min · 1,732 flights
  • Middays80% on time · p90 35 min · 3,228 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 50 min · 1,032 flights
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 65 min · 1,947 flights
  • Overnights64% on time · p90 75 min · 1,868 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 76% on time.

  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 1,387 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,427 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 50 min · 1,425 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 45 min · 1,489 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 50 min · 1,180 flights
  • Fridays72% on time · p90 50 min · 1,476 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 55 min · 1,423 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.