Flight number record

OO 4698

SkyWest Airlines · Akron to Chicago

Route: CAK → ORD
Departs: 17:45
Flights: 322
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 4698, 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 4698 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 4698 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 187 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 297 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.76%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

23.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 322 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 23.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When OO 4698 flies

OO 4698 flies CAK to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:45, used on 76 of 322 flights, with 18:05 (50 flights) and 17:50 (48 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:4576 flights23.6%
Departs 18:0550 flights15.5%
Departs 17:5048 flights14.9%

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 17:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OO 4698 runs 9 points worse at 58.9%. 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 4698 next to CAK to ORD

Every carrier on CAK to ORD combined arrived on time 71.6% of the time across 1,963 flights, so OO 4698 is 13 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,474 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.0% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 20 points.

OO 4698 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 4698thin sample	322	58.9%	106 min	7.76%	D−
All SkyWest Airlines on CAK–ORD	1,474	72.0%	117 min	4.41%	C−
All carriers on CAK–ORD	1,963	71.6%	114 min	4.99%	C−
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 4698 quarter by quarter

OO 4698 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.8% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 52.6%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 81 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 202584 flights56.8%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights55.7%
Jan–Mar 202664 flights52.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.8%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 4698 did best on Monday at 75.0% on time and worst on Friday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 4698 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 13,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
42%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
6%

42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 12,878 delay minutes reported on OO 4698.

Cancellations run at 7.76%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 23.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to GEG (9), LAX to AUS (2) and LAX to LAS (1), but none flew often enough under OO 4698 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to CAK to ORD only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 322 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 4698

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OO 4698: 7.76% of its 322 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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.

Key figures