Flight number record
OO 5232
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Chicago
- Route
- FAR → ORD
- Departs
- 13:52
- Flights
- 320
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5232, 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 5232 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about 2.6 hours behind schedule. That rests on 320 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5232 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 313 completed flights
Avg delay
156 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 320 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When OO 5232 flies
OO 5232 flies FAR to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:52, used on 86 of 320 flights, with 13:40 (58 flights) and 13:56 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:5286 flights26.9%
- Departs 13:4058 flights18.1%
- Departs 13:5649 flights15.3%
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 13:52 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OO 5232 runs 7 points worse at 72.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OO 5232 next to FAR to ORD
Every carrier on FAR to ORD combined arrived on time 72.2% of the time across 2,068 flights, so OO 5232 is about level with it. SkyWest flew 1,008 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.2% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5232thin sample | 320 | 72.2% | 156 min | 1.56% | C |
| All SkyWest Airlines on FAR–ORD | 1,008 | 69.2% | 121 min | 2.58% | C |
| All carriers on FAR–ORD | 2,068 | 72.2% | 101 min | 2.61% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 852,935 | 79.0% | 88 min | 1.77% | B |
Across the year
OO 5232 quarter by quarter
OO 5232 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 75.6% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 61.2%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 80 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 202592 flights75.6%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights72.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.7%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights61.2%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5232 did best on Saturday at 81.4% on time and worst on Friday at 63.0%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OO 5232 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 14,000 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.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 30%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 5,795 minutes out of 14,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 13,531 delay minutes reported on OO 5232.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.62%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 557 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including ORD to DTW (62) and PSC to SFO (1), but none flew often enough under OO 5232 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FAR to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 320 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 5232
For a booking, OO 5232 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.3% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- FAR to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to FAR, the return direction
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- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.