Flight number record

OO 4649

SkyWest Airlines · Santa Barbara to Los Angeles

Route: SBA → LAX
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 4649, 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 4649 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 4649's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

110 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 4649 flies

OO 4649 flies SBA to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 158 of 365 flights, with 06:20 (61 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00158 flights43.3%
Departs 06:2061 flights16.7%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OO 4649 runs 2 points better at 91.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

OO 4649 next to SBA to LAX

Every carrier on SBA to LAX combined arrived on time 89.1% of the time across 687 flights, so OO 4649 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

OO 4649 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 4649	365	91.4%	110 min	0.82%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on SBA–LAX	687	89.1%	80 min	1.31%	A
All carriers on SBA–LAX	687	89.1%	80 min	1.31%	A
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 4649 quarter by quarter

OO 4649 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.9%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.5%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights78.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights95.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 4649 ranged from 86.5% on Tuesday to 96.1% on Friday. With about 52 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.

Delay causes

Why OO 4649 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 3,418 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
50%
Extreme weather
29%
National Airspace System
17%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%

Extreme weather accounts for 29% 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 4.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,418 delay minutes reported on OO 4649.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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 4.7% 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.

Every one of the 365 flights under OO 4649 in the data flew SBA to LAX. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 4649

For a booking, OO 4649 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.4% on time and 0.82% 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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