Flight number record
OO 3803
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Santa Barbara
- Route
- SLC → SBA
- Departs
- 20:55
- Flights
- 349
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 349 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 3803's record is 19 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 186 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
95.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
45 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 349 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 19 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.
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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 113 of 349 flights, with 20:45 (108 flights) and 21:05 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 20:55113 flights32.4%
- Departs 20:45108 flights30.9%
- Departs 21:0557 flights16.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
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 70.1%, and OO 3803 runs 26 points better at 95.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
OO 3803 next to SLC to SBA
Every carrier on SLC to SBA combined arrived on time 92.0% of the time across 1,062 flights, so OO 3803 is 4 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 934 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 92.9% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 3803thin sample | 349 | 95.9% | 45 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on SLC–SBA | 934 | 92.9% | 53 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| All carriers on SLC–SBA | 1,062 | 92.0% | 56 min | 0.75% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 3803 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 3803 held fairly steady: 97.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 97.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 91.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights97.4%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights96.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights97.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights91.9%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 3803 ranged from 89.8% on Saturday to 100.0% on Thursday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 3803 runs when it is late
OO 3803 often beats the schedule: 210 of 344 completed flights, 61%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 14 late arrivals split 2 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 4 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early210 flights61.0%
- Within 15 min120 flights34.9%
- 15–29 min late2 flights0.6%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 21 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. Only 2 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 3803
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 1 hour 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2026 | 1 hour 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 1 hour 9 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 February 2026 | 1 hour 1 minute | Carrier |
| 22 August 2026 | 1 hour 1 minute | National Airspace System |
| 25 July 2026 | 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 3803 runs late
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 628 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 20%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 628 delay minutes reported on OO 3803.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 8.3% 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.
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: 95.9% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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Where to go next
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.