Flight number record

OO 5296

SkyWest Airlines · Tulsa to Chicago

Route: TUL → ORD
Departs: 14:20
Flights: 318
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5296, 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 5296 lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 318 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

On time

78.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 312 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.26%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

9.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 318 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 5296 flies

OO 5296 flies TUL to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:20, used on 62 of 318 flights, with 14:41 (53 flights) and 14:39 (49 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:2062 flights19.5%
Departs 14:4153 flights16.7%
Departs 14:3949 flights15.4%

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 14:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OO 5296 runs 6 points better at 78.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 5296 next to TUL to ORD

Every carrier on TUL to ORD combined arrived on time 76.1% of the time across 2,155 flights, so OO 5296 is 3 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 1,057 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.4% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, close to this flight's figure.

OO 5296 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5296thin sample	318	78.8%	112 min	1.26%	B
All SkyWest Airlines on TUL–ORD	1,057	78.4%	101 min	1.61%	B
All carriers on TUL–ORD	2,155	76.1%	91 min	2.51%	B
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5296 quarter by quarter

OO 5296 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 87.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.3%, a swing of 20 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 flights71.4%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights85.1%
Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.1%
Apr–Jun 202650 flights67.3%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5296 ranged from 73.3% on Friday to 84.4% on Wednesday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 5296 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 7,388 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
30%
Carrier
28%
National Airspace System
24%
Extreme weather
19%

Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,388 delay minutes reported on OO 5296.

Cancellations sit at 1.26% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.63%.

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. 9.0% 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 585 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 four other city pairs in the data, including ABQ to SFO (22), TVC to ORD (11) and ORD to LIT (6), but none flew often enough under OO 5296 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to TUL to ORD only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 318 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 5296

For a booking, read OO 5296 as 78.8% on time with 1.26% cancelled over 318 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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.

Key figures