Route profile
DTW→OMA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Detroit to Omaha, 651 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 44% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 3,326 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
DTW → OMA arrives on time 78.2% of the time; the return trip, OMA → DTW, arrives on time 83.0% of the time, a 4.8-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
DTW → OMA spends 26.4 minutes on the ground on a 651-mile trip: 21.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at DTW and 4.9 minutes from touchdown to gate at OMA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where DTW to OMA differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
DTW to OMA is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 8 PM: 82.9% arrive on time, 15.4 points ahead of the 67.5% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 15.5 points.
Wednesday is the day DTW to OMA slips furthest against routes of similar length, 75.7% on time where they average 80.9%, 5.2 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 5.1 points.
In January, DTW to OMA runs 12.4 points below routes of similar length, 66.7% on time to 79.1%. Against all other routes the gap is 12.4 points.
May is kinder to DTW to OMA than to routes of similar length: 81.9% on time against 74.3%, 7.6 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 6.7 points.
SkyWest Airlines’ flights on DTW to OMA arrive on time 77.3% of the time, 7.6 points below the 84.9% it manages on its routes of similar length. Against all other routes the gap is 4 points.
DTW to OMA against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 8 PM departures | 82.9% | routes of similar length | 67.5% | +15.4 pts | 345 here, 97,922 there |
| Weekday: Wednesday | 75.7% | routes of similar length | 80.9% | −5.2 pts | 486 here, 292,876 there |
| Month: January | 66.7% | routes of similar length | 79.1% | −12.4 pts | 240 here, 151,325 there |
| Month: May | 81.9% | routes of similar length | 74.3% | +7.6 pts | 260 here, 178,385 there |
| Airline: SkyWest Airlines | 77.3% | routes of similar length | 84.9% | −7.6 pts | 3,129 here, 134,706 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 651 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
55 min late
against a median of 5 min early
DTW → OMA has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 5 min early, but the worst tenth are 60 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 3,326 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at OMA after arriving from DTW.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 37% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 21% | High risk |
| 60 min | 16% | High risk |
| 90 min | 9.2% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.5% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 0.51% of the time and diverts 0.24% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 3,301 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 55 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 3,326 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
DTW → OMA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 83.2% of the time, against 73.1% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 10.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 7 AM: too few flights to score
- 8 AM: 83.2% on time from 1,053 flights
- 9 AM to 11 AM: too few flights to score
- 12 PM: 81.4% on time from 231 flights
- 1 PM to 2 PM: too few flights to score
- 3 PM: 77.2% on time from 746 flights
- 4 PM: 73.0% on time from 271 flights
- 5 PM to 6 PM: too few flights to score
- 7 PM: 67.1% on time from 570 flights
- 8 PM: 82.9% on time from 346 flights
- 9 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why DTW → OMA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DTW → OMA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 3,154 | 77.3% | 0.54% | -5 min | 9.9% |
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
OO4055 (8:30 AM) arrived on time 81.5% of the time, 10.2 points more often than OO3715 (7:45 PM) at 71.3%.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 5.7 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 66.7%
- Feb: 73.7%
- Mar: 78.0%
- Apr: 83.9%
- May: 81.9%
- Jun: 76.3%
- Jul: 72.3%
- Aug: 76.3%
- Sep: 88.6%
- Oct: 89.0%
- Nov: 79.0%
- Dec: 71.9%
January is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 22.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: too few flights to score (88)
- August 2023: too few flights to score (93)
- September 2023: too few flights to score (84)
- October 2023: too few flights to score (88)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (82)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (72)
- January 2024: too few flights to score (81)
- February 2024: too few flights to score (78)
- March 2024: too few flights to score (89)
- April 2024: too few flights to score (86)
- May 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- June 2024: too few flights to score (89)
- July 2024: too few flights to score (89)
- August 2024: too few flights to score (92)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (88)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (87)
- November 2024: too few flights to score (78)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (80)
- January 2025: too few flights to score (84)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (78)
- March 2025: too few flights to score (88)
- April 2025: too few flights to score (86)
- May 2025: too few flights to score (87)
- June 2025: too few flights to score (108)
- July 2025: too few flights to score (118)
- August 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- September 2025: too few flights to score (109)
- October 2025: too few flights to score (117)
- November 2025: too few flights to score (88)
- December 2025: too few flights to score (70)
- January 2026: too few flights to score (80)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (73)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (89)
- April 2026: too few flights to score (86)
- May 2026: too few flights to score (87)
- June 2026: too few flights to score (110)
- July 2026: 80.0% from 120 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 75.3% against 77.8% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.5 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 3,326 DTW → OMA flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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