Flight number record
OO 4702
SkyWest Airlines · Bakersfield to Denver
- Route
- BFL → DEN
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 4702, 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 4702 lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
80.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 4702 flies
OO 4702 flies BFL to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 81 of 363 flights, with 12:55 (60 flights) and 12:50 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 12:4081 flights22.3%
- Departs 12:5560 flights16.5%
- Departs 12:5037 flights10.2%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and OO 4702 runs level with that at 80.2%. 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 4702 next to BFL to DEN
Every carrier on BFL to DEN combined arrived on time 86.4% of the time across 728 flights, so OO 4702 is 6 points behind it. SkyWest flew 627 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.2% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 4702thin sample | 363 | 80.2% | 62 min | 0.28% | B+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on BFL–DEN | 627 | 85.2% | 79 min | 0.32% | A+ |
| All carriers on BFL–DEN | 728 | 86.4% | 82 min | 0.41% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 4702 quarter by quarter
OO 4702 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 90.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 67.8%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights67.8%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, OO 4702 did best on Tuesday at 88.5% on time and worst on Thursday at 76.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 4702 runs when it is late
OO 4702 often beats the schedule: 118 of 359 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 71 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights32.9%
- Within 15 min170 flights47.4%
- 15–29 min late22 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late22 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late7 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 82 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 4702
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 May 2026, 5 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 July 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 July 2026 | 2 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 December 2025 | 2 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 February 2026 | 2 hours 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why OO 4702 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 4,420 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 4,420 delay minutes reported on OO 4702.
Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.89% 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
7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 845 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 one other city pair in the data, including ORD to DSM (1), but none flew often enough under OO 4702 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BFL to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 363 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 4702
For a booking, OO 4702 is one of the weaker ways to fly BFL to DEN: 6 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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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.