OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Antonio to Denver

794 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 2,864 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time82%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights224
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights1,433
  • United Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.5%
    Flights1,207

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)35%
  • Late aircraft32%
  • Security0%

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

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline50%
  • Weather17%
  • Air traffic (NAS)33%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Airline. Shares are among 12 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly SAT → DEN

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 3,194 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 2,776 flights
  • Afternoons73% on time · p90 65 min · 1,779 flights
  • Overnights67% on time · p90 60 min · 622 flights
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 60 min · 929 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 84% on time.

  • Wednesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 1,232 flights
  • Mondays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,376 flights
  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,222 flights
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 35 min · 1,273 flights
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 35 min · 1,377 flights
  • Thursdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,425 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 40 min · 1,395 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.