Flight number record
OO 5072
SkyWest Airlines · Scottsbluff to Denver
- Route
- BFF → DEN
- Departs
- 10:17
- Flights
- 275
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 5072's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 157 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
149 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 275 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 5072 flies
OO 5072 flies BFF to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:17, used on 103 of 275 flights, with 10:20 (62 flights) and 10:21 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 10:17103 flights37.5%
- Departs 10:2062 flights22.5%
- Departs 10:2153 flights19.3%
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 10:17 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and OO 5072 runs 9 points better at 93.0%. 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 5072 next to BFF to DEN
Every carrier on BFF to DEN combined arrived on time 78.7% of the time across 626 flights, so OO 5072 is 14 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5072thin sample | 275 | 93.0% | 149 min | 1.09% | A |
| All SkyWest Airlines on BFF–DEN | 626 | 78.7% | 123 min | 1.60% | B |
| All carriers on BFF–DEN | 626 | 78.7% | 123 min | 1.60% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5072 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 5072 held fairly steady: 92.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.3% in Jul–Sep 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202569 flights92.6%
- Jan–Mar 202675 flights94.5%
- Apr–Jun 202680 flights91.2%
- Jul–Sep 202630 flights93.3%
Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5072 did best on Saturday at 98.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 85.4%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5072 runs when it is late
OO 5072 often beats the schedule: 95 of 272 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When OO 5072 is late it tends to be very late: 12 of its 19 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 8 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early95 flights34.9%
- Within 15 min158 flights58.1%
- 15–29 min late2 flights0.7%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.8%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 272 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 272 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 5072
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 August 2026, 10 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2026 | 10 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 8 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 November 2025 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 November 2025 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 3 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why OO 5072 runs late
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 2,826 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,826 delay minutes reported on OO 5072.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.89%, 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 4.4% 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 same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DEN to BFF (147), RIW to DEN (21) 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. 275 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: 93.0% on time and 1.09% 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
- Every SkyWest Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.