Flight number record

OO 4702

SkyWest Airlines · Bakersfield to Denver

Route: BFL → DEN
Departs: 12:50
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

80.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 360 completed flights

Avg delay

64 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 4702 flies

OO 4702 flies BFL to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:50, used on 86 of 364 flights, with 12:55 (73 flights) and 12:40 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 12:5086 flights23.6%
Departs 12:5573 flights20.1%
Departs 12:4041 flights11.3%

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 12:50 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OO 4702 runs level with that at 80.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 4702 next to BFL to DEN

Every carrier on BFL to DEN combined arrived on time 86.2% of the time across 729 flights, so OO 4702 is 6 points behind it. SkyWest flew 689 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.1% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

OO 4702 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 4702thin sample	364	80.6%	64 min	0.27%	B+
All SkyWest Airlines on BFL–DEN	689	86.1%	80 min	0.29%	A+
All carriers on BFL–DEN	729	86.2%	83 min	0.27%	A+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	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 2025 at 74.4%, a swing of 16 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 flights74.4%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights90.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights77.8%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 4702 ranged from 76.9% on Saturday to 82.7% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

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 4,501 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
18%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,501 delay minutes reported on OO 4702.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

7.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. 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.

Every one of the 364 flights under OO 4702 in the data flew BFL to DEN. 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. 364 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.

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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