Flight number record

OO 4796

SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Santa Barbara

Route: LAX → SBA
Departs: 22:42
Flights: 352
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 4796's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

169 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.85%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 352 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 4796 flies

OO 4796 flies LAX to SBA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:42, used on 85 of 352 flights, with 22:50 (71 flights) and 23:03 (63 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 22:4285 flights24.1%
Departs 22:5071 flights20.2%
Departs 23:0363 flights17.9%

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 22:42 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and OO 4796 runs 19 points better at 89.9%. 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 4796 next to LAX to SBA

Every carrier on LAX to SBA combined arrived on time 89.2% of the time across 687 flights, so OO 4796 is about level with it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

OO 4796 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 4796thin sample	352	89.9%	169 min	0.85%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on LAX–SBA	687	89.2%	109 min	1.31%	A
All carriers on LAX–SBA	687	89.2%	109 min	1.31%	A
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 4796 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 4796 held fairly steady: 93.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights93.1%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights86.7%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights90.2%
Apr–Jun 202686 flights89.5%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 4796 did best on Wednesday at 96.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 4796 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Extreme weather accounts for 47% of the 5,896 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Extreme weather
47%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
13%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 47% 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 7.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,896 delay minutes reported on OO 4796.

Cancellations are rare at 0.85%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including FAT to LAX (5), SAN to SFO (3) and SFO to ASE (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. 352 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: 89.9% on time and 0.85% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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