Flight number record

OO 5072

SkyWest Airlines · Scottsbluff to Denver

Route: BFF → DEN
Departs: 10:17
Flights: 254
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5072, 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 5072 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 254 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5072's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 152 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 251 completed flights

Avg delay

95 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 254 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When OO 5072 flies

OO 5072 flies BFF to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:17, used on 73 of 254 flights, with 10:20 (62 flights) and 10:21 (53 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:1773 flights28.7%
Departs 10:2062 flights24.4%
Departs 10:2153 flights20.9%

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 10:17 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and OO 5072 runs 9 points better at 92.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

OO 5072 next to BFF to DEN

Every carrier on BFF to DEN combined arrived on time 78.2% of the time across 625 flights, so OO 5072 is 15 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

OO 5072 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5072thin sample	254	92.8%	95 min	1.18%	A
All SkyWest Airlines on BFF–DEN	625	78.2%	109 min	1.44%	B
All carriers on BFF–DEN	625	78.2%	109 min	1.44%	B
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5072 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 5072 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202569 flights92.6%
Jan–Mar 202675 flights94.5%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights91.2%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5072 did best on Saturday at 97.8% on time and worst on Thursday at 84.1%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5072 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 49% of the 1,710 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.

Carrier
49%
Extreme weather
25%
National Airspace System
24%
Late-arriving aircraft
2%

Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,710 delay minutes reported on OO 5072.

Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.0% 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 two other city pairs in the data, including DEN to BFF (152) and COD to DEN (1), but none flew often enough under OO 5072 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BFF to DEN only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 254 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 5072

For a booking, OO 5072 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.8% on time and 1.18% 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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