Flight number record
OO 4741
SkyWest Airlines · Lexington to Denver
- Route
- LEX → DEN
- Departs
- 09:00
- Flights
- 262
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 4741, 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 4741 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 262 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 4741's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.76%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 262 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 4741 flies
OO 4741 flies LEX to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:00, used on 95 of 262 flights, with 08:45 (32 flights) and 09:15 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 09:0095 flights36.3%
- Departs 08:4532 flights12.2%
- Departs 09:1531 flights11.8%
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 09:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and OO 4741 runs 6 points better at 89.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
OO 4741 next to LEX to DEN
Every carrier on LEX to DEN combined arrived on time 86.7% of the time across 365 flights, so OO 4741 is 3 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 4741thin sample | 262 | 89.6% | 94 min | 0.76% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on LEX–DENthin sample | 263 | 89.6% | 94 min | 0.76% | A+ |
| All carriers on LEX–DEN | 365 | 86.7% | 83 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 4741 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 4741 held fairly steady: 96.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 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 flights88.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights90.0%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, OO 4741 ranged from 86.5% on Friday to 91.9% on Monday. With about 37 flights behind each day, a spread of 5 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 4741 runs when it is late
OO 4741 often beats the schedule: 101 of 259 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 27 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early101 flights39.0%
- Within 15 min131 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late9 flights3.5%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.7%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 259 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
6 of 24 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 4741
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 10 hours 58 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 10 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 March 2026 | 7 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 February 2026 | 2 hours 34 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 November 2025 | 2 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 November 2025 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 4741 runs late
Carrier accounts for 83% of the 2,526 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 83%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,091 of the 2,526 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,526 delay minutes reported on OO 4741.
Cancellations are rare at 0.76%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% 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 1,086 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 four other city pairs in the data, including MSO to LAX (41), ORD to CRW (24) and DEN to SAT (21), but none flew often enough under OO 4741 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LEX to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 262 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 4741
For a booking, OO 4741 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.6% on time and 0.76% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Denver International (DEN) 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.