OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Denver to Santa Fe

303 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DEN–SAF arrive on time 78% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate78%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.9%of scheduled flights

based on 1,391 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,391

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline39%
  • Weather8%
  • Air traffic (NAS)28%
  • Late aircraft25%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DEN → SAF

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 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 35 min · 507 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 50 min · 611 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 40 min · 575 flights
  • Overnights74% on time · p90 60 min · 582 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 81% on time.

  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 40 min · 322 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 50 min · 326 flights
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 319 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 45 min · 331 flights
  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 322 flights
  • Fridays76% on time · p90 55 min · 326 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 45 min · 331 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.