Flight number record

OO 3803

SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Santa Barbara

Route: SLC → SBA
Departs: 20:55
Flights: 349
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 3803, check with SkyWest Airlines. SkyWest Airlines flies under contract for larger airlines, so a ticket for this flight may show a different airline code and number.

OO 3803 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 19 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 45 minutes. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 20 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 3803's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 186 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

96.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights

Avg delay

47 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.29%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 349 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 20 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When OO 3803 flies

OO 3803 flies SLC to SBA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:55, used on 131 of 349 flights, with 20:45 (108 flights) and 21:45 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:55131 flights37.5%
Departs 20:45108 flights30.9%
Departs 21:4536 flights10.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 20:55 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and OO 3803 runs 26 points better at 96.2%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

OO 3803 next to SLC to SBA

Every carrier on SLC to SBA combined arrived on time 93.4% of the time across 1,060 flights, so OO 3803 is 3 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 903 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 94.8% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 17 points.

OO 3803 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 3803thin sample	349	96.2%	47 min	0.29%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on SLC–SBA	903	94.8%	48 min	0.78%	A+
All carriers on SLC–SBA	1,060	93.4%	52 min	1.04%	A
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 3803 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 3803 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 97.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 97.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202580 flights97.4%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights96.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights97.8%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 3803 ranged from 91.8% on Saturday to 100.0% on Monday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 3803 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 85% of the 607 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
85%
National Airspace System
15%

The largest share of delay minutes, 85%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 517 of the 607 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 607 delay minutes reported on OO 3803.

Cancellations are rare at 0.29%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 1.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 615 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including MCI to MSP (16) and MSP to MCI (16), but none flew often enough under OO 3803 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SLC to SBA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 349 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking OO 3803

For a booking, OO 3803 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 96.2% on time and 0.29% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

Where to go next

A flight number here means SkyWest Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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