Flight number record
OO 5297
SkyWest Airlines · Lincoln to Chicago
- Route
- LNK → ORD
- Departs
- 15:13
- Flights
- 307
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5297, 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 5297 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OO 5297 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 178 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 291 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
21.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 307 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When OO 5297 flies
OO 5297 flies LNK to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:13, used on 86 of 307 flights, with 15:10 (36 flights) and 15:05 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 15:1386 flights28.0%
- Departs 15:1036 flights11.7%
- Departs 15:0534 flights11.1%
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 15:13 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and OO 5297 runs 12 points worse at 59.5%. 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 5297 next to LNK to ORD
Every carrier on LNK to ORD combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 1,618 flights, so OO 5297 is 15 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight trails by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5297thin sample | 307 | 59.5% | 104 min | 4.56% | D− |
| All SkyWest Airlines on LNK–ORD | 1,618 | 74.3% | 107 min | 3.28% | C− |
| All carriers on LNK–ORD | 1,618 | 74.3% | 107 min | 3.28% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5297 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 5297 held fairly steady: 59.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 58.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 55.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights59.0%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights58.2%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights55.0%
- Jul–Sep 202621 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5297 did best on Tuesday at 73.8% on time and worst on Sunday at 51.2%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5297 runs when it is late
When OO 5297 is late it tends to be very late: 61 of its 118 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 32 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early32 flights11.0%
- Within 15 min141 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late31 flights10.7%
- 30–59 min late26 flights8.9%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights10.0%
- 2+ hours late32 flights11.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 291 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 114 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 12 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 16 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 5297
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 21 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across April, March, November and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 21 hours 50 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 March 2026 | 17 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 6 hours 22 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 August 2026 | 6 hours 12 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 August 2026 | 5 hours 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why OO 5297 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 19%Extreme weather
- 14%Carrier
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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,285 delay minutes reported on OO 5297.
Cancellations run at 4.56%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
21.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including IAH to MKE (41) and IAH to DFW (6), but none flew often enough under OO 5297 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LNK to ORD only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 307 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 5297
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OO 5297: 4.56% of its 307 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- LNK to ORD, every carrier and departure
- ORD to LNK, the return direction
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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.