Flight number record
OO 3896
SkyWest Airlines · Salt Lake City to Omaha
- Route
- SLC → OMA
- Departs
- 13:30
- Flights
- 326
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 326 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 3896's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 160 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 326 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 326 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 3896 flies
OO 3896 flies SLC to OMA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:30, used on 152 of 326 flights, with 14:19 (40 flights) and 13:55 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 13:30152 flights46.6%
- Departs 14:1940 flights12.3%
- Departs 13:5534 flights10.4%
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 13:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and OO 3896 runs 15 points better at 93.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
OO 3896 next to SLC to OMA
Every carrier on SLC to OMA combined arrived on time 89.2% of the time across 780 flights, so OO 3896 is 4 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 3896thin sample | 326 | 93.3% | 75 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on SLC–OMA | 780 | 89.2% | 58 min | 0.13% | A+ |
| All carriers on SLC–OMA | 780 | 89.2% | 58 min | 0.13% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | 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, 93.3% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.4% 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202663 flights92.1%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights93.3%
- Jul–Sep 202652 flights90.4%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, OO 3896 ranged from 87.5% on Sunday to 95.9% on Monday. With about 47 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 3896 runs when it is late
OO 3896 often beats the schedule: 134 of 326 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 22 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early134 flights41.1%
- Within 15 min170 flights52.1%
- 15–29 min late9 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.2%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 326 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 3896
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 April 2026, 6 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 December 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 July 2026 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 April 2026 | 1 hour 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 3896 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 1,654 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,654 delay minutes reported on OO 3896.
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 2.8% 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 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including OMA to SLC (169), 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. 326 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: 93.3% 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
- SkyWest Airlines 3706 on the same route83.1%
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record
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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.