Flight number record
OO 5296
SkyWest Airlines · Tulsa to Chicago
- Route
- TUL → ORD
- Departs
- 14:20
- Flights
- 256
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 5296's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 251 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 256 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 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 256 flights, with 14:41 (40 flights) and 14:40 (32 flights) next.
- Departs 14:2062 flights24.2%
- Departs 14:4140 flights15.6%
- Departs 14:4032 flights12.5%
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 14:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and OO 5296 runs 11 points better at 82.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
OO 5296 next to TUL to ORD
Every carrier on TUL to ORD combined arrived on time 78.1% of the time across 2,142 flights, so OO 5296 is 5 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 993 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.2% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5296thin sample | 256 | 82.9% | 98 min | 1.56% | B |
| All SkyWest Airlines on TUL–ORD | 993 | 80.2% | 100 min | 1.71% | B |
| All carriers on TUL–ORD | 2,142 | 78.1% | 89 min | 2.57% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5296 quarter by quarter
OO 5296 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.3%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 64 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 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights85.1%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights87.1%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights67.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, OO 5296 did best on Wednesday at 88.9% on time and worst on Monday at 73.0%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5296 runs when it is late
OO 5296 often beats the schedule: 90 of 251 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights35.9%
- Within 15 min118 flights47.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late13 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.6%
- 2+ hours late13 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 251 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 31 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 13 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 5296
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 September 2025, 8 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2025 | 8 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 January 2026 | 7 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 January 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 January 2026 | 5 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 4,199 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 33%National Airspace System
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Extreme weather
33% 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 1,394 minutes out of 4,199, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,199 delay minutes reported on OO 5296.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.39%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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.
The same number turns up on six other city pairs in the data, including ORD to SGF (41), ABQ to SFO (22) and FSD to DEN (15), 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. 256 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
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For a booking, read OO 5296 as 82.9% on time with 1.56% cancelled over 256 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- TUL to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to TUL, the return direction
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
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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.