Best time to fly out of Roswell Air Center (ROW)
Roswell Air Center did not fly enough departures in this window to split the day into time bands. Not enough flights to say. A percentage needs at least 100 flights behind it before it is worth printing; anything thinner is noise wearing a decimal point. These are historical odds, not forecasts. The records say what happened on this schedule over three years; they know nothing about tomorrow’s thunderstorm.
Data through June 2026 · Bureau of Transportation Statistics
On-time rate by hour and day
On this page, “on time” means a departure that pushed back less than 15 minutes behind its scheduled time — the Bureau of Transportation Statistics definition, and the one airlines are held to.
| Departure time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before 6am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6–8am | 86 | 90 | 88 | 89 | 86 | 84 | 89 |
| 8–10am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10am–12pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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| 6–8pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at ROW
June was the hard month at ROW: 73.8% of departures left on time, across 326 flights. December was the easy one at 86.1%. Each month pools three years of that month, so a single bad week does not decide it.
| Month | Share departures that left on time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| January | 80.1% | 216 |
| February | 82.9% | 213 |
| March | 79.2% | 279 |
| April | 78.4% | 270 |
| May | 78.5% | 287 |
| June | 73.8% | 326 |
| July | 78.3% | 246 |
| August | 80.4% | 247 |
| September | 84.3% | 218 |
| October | 82.9% | 216 |
| November | 80.5% | 205 |
| December | 86.1% | 214 |
Airlines at ROW
Every airline with at least 100 departures from ROW, busiest first. These are that airline’s departures from this airport only — its record across the country sits on its own page.
| Airline | Left on time | Typical delay | Cancelled | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 80% | 125 min | 3% | 2,532 |
| Envoy Air | 80.6% | 86 min | 0.7% | 405 |
What delays out of ROW were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 618 flights that departed ROW and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 60.6% put down to airline operations and 17.4% to severe weather.
- Late-arriving aircraft 11.8%
- Airline operations 60.6%
- Air traffic & airport volume 10.1%
- Severe weather 17.4%
- Security 0.1%
Late-arriving aircraft is the knock-on category: the plane came in late, so it went out late again. It is why a 7am problem in Newark is still a problem in Denver at dinnertime, and why it is usually the biggest slice on the bar.
If you are connecting through ROW
Of 2,937 scheduled arrivals into ROW, 77.1% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 577 arrivals that ran late, 50.8% were no more than 45 minutes behind — which is the difference between a tight connection and a new boarding pass.
Work out a specific layover — pick the airport and the minutes you have, and the tool reads the same arrival records back as a share.
Busiest routes out of ROW
Ranked by flights, with the share that arrived on time at the far end. Where a route carries enough flights for a page of its own the chip goes there; otherwise it goes to the destination airport.
ROW in one number
Roswell Air Center (ROW)
Rank 239 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: 6–8am. Hardest month: June.
Questions about ROW
- What is the worst month to fly out of ROW?
- June: 73.8% of the departures that flew left on time, with 326 scheduled. December was the other end of the year at 86.1%. Each figure pools three years of that calendar month.
- Which airline is most on time at ROW?
- Envoy Air — 80.6% of its 405 departures from ROW left on time. SkyWest Airlines sat at the other end at 80% over 2,532 flights. Only airlines with at least 100 departures here are ranked.
- How often are flights cancelled at ROW?
- 2.7% of scheduled departures were cancelled over July 2023 through June 2026. Cancellations are counted against everything scheduled, not against everything that flew — a rate that looks small still adds up to real people in a rebooking line.