Flight number record
OO 4796
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Santa Barbara
- Route
- LAX → SBA
- Departs
- 22:44
- Flights
- 351
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 4796, 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 4796 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.3 hours. That rests on 351 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 4796's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
140 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 351 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 4796 flies
OO 4796 flies LAX to SBA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:44, used on 79 of 351 flights, with 22:50 (71 flights) and 23:03 (52 flights) next.
- Departs 22:4479 flights22.5%
- Departs 22:5071 flights20.2%
- Departs 23:0352 flights14.8%
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 22:44 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and OO 4796 runs 17 points better at 87.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
OO 4796 next to LAX to SBA
Every carrier on LAX to SBA combined arrived on time 88.2% of the time across 681 flights, so OO 4796 is about level with it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 4796thin sample | 351 | 87.0% | 140 min | 0.57% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on LAX–SBA | 681 | 88.2% | 105 min | 1.03% | A |
| All carriers on LAX–SBA | 681 | 88.2% | 105 min | 1.03% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 4796 quarter by quarter
OO 4796 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 76.7%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 88 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights86.7%
- Jan–Mar 202683 flights90.2%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights89.5%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights76.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 4796 did best on Wednesday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 4796 runs when it is late
OO 4796 often beats the schedule: 124 of 346 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early124 flights35.8%
- Within 15 min177 flights51.2%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.8%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 42 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 4796
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 March 2026, 10 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2026 | 10 hours 49 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 9 November 2025 | 9 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 November 2025 | 9 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 April 2026 | 9 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 July 2026 | 8 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 4796 runs late
Extreme weather accounts for 45% of the 6,277 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Extreme weather
- 43%Carrier
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 45% 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 7.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,277 delay minutes reported on OO 4796.
Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, 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
5.2% 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 2.3 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including FAT to LAX (5), SAN to SFO (3) and RDU to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under OO 4796 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to SBA only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 351 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 4796
For a booking, OO 4796 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.0% on time and 0.57% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
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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.