OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

DSMDEN

Des Moines to Denver

590 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DSM–DEN arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 2,072 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9080 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights768
  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time90%
    Medianon time
    p9010 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights847
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights457

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline21%
  • Weather13%
  • Air traffic (NAS)46%
  • Late aircraft20%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→DSM airportDes Moines→DEN airportDenver→ExpressJet Airlines (Continental Express) on this routecarrier detail→ExpressJet Airlines (Continental Express)airline profile→

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.