Flight number record
OO 3896
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Omaha
- Route
- SLC → OMA
- Departs
- 13:30
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 3896, 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 3896 earns an A+. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 3896's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 167 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 336 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
1.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 336 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 3896 flies
OO 3896 flies SLC to OMA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:30, used on 124 of 336 flights, with 13:55 (75 flights) and 14:19 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:30124 flights36.9%
- Departs 13:5575 flights22.3%
- Departs 14:1940 flights11.9%
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 13:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OO 3896 runs 16 points better at 94.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OO 3896 next to SLC to OMA
Every carrier on SLC to OMA combined arrived on time 89.9% of the time across 728 flights, so OO 3896 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 3896thin sample | 336 | 94.3% | 65 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on SLC–OMA | 728 | 89.9% | 57 min | 0.14% | A+ |
| All carriers on SLC–OMA | 728 | 89.9% | 57 min | 0.14% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 852,935 | 79.0% | 88 min | 1.77% | B |
Across the year
OO 3896 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 3896 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 92.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.3% 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202663 flights92.1%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights93.3%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 3896 did best on Monday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 87.5%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OO 3896 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 1,238 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.
- 72%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 13%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,238 delay minutes reported on OO 3896.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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 1.8% 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 840 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 three other city pairs in the data, including OMA to SLC (203), BUF to DTW (18) and DTW to BUF (18), but none flew often enough under OO 3896 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SLC to OMA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 336 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 3896
For a booking, OO 3896 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 94.3% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to OMA, every carrier and departure
- OMA to SLC, the return direction
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record
- Every SkyWest Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.