Best airline from Los Angeles to Denver

Most punctual on this route

A
United Airlines

87.14% on time across 3,067 flights · 0.1% cancelled

That is 5.3 points clear of Frontier Airlines, the next best on this route at 81.88%.

Every airline on LAX to DEN, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 United Airlines 3,067 87.14% 0.1% A
2 Frontier Airlines 762 81.88% 0.79% B
3 SkyWest Airlines 1,231 81.2% 0.81% B
4 Delta Air Lines 744 79.7% 1.48% C
5 Southwest Airlines 1,917 74.12% 0.47% C

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On LAX to DEN the spread between best and worst is 13 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full LAX to DEN record → · Best time of year to fly it →