Flights Denver → Oakland
DEN → OAK
Route overview
The flight route from Denver to Oakland has a moderate on-time performance rate of 63%, with an average delay of 20.2 minutes per flight. Over the past year, this route has seen 358 flights connecting two well-established airports, with the origin airport in Denver having opened in 1989 and the destination airport in Oakland opening as early as 1927, which currently handles over eleven million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Denver (DEN) → Oakland (OAK) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 510 flights monitored in recent months, 63% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 19 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.98%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 21.7/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Oakland the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Denver the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Oakland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Denver (DEN) to Oakland (OAK) heads west for about 1,537 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 20m.
Departures from Denver on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 34% of DEN-OAK flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Denver the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Oakland it is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 510 tracked DEN-OAK flights, 63% left on time with an average delay of 19 min and a 1.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about DEN-OAK
On the Denver (DEN) -> Oakland (OAK) route, on-time performance is 63% with an average delay of 19 minutes, based on 510 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Denver-Oakland is 0.98% across 510 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
