Flight number record

OO 5297

SkyWest Airlines · Lincoln to Chicago

Route: LNK → ORD
Departs: 15:13
Flights: 299
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 299 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5297 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 163 extra late arrivals.

On time

61.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 284 completed flights

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.35%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

19.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 299 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.4% 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 5297 flies

OO 5297 flies LNK to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:13, used on 99 of 299 flights, with 15:10 (36 flights) and 15:05 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:1399 flights33.1%
Departs 15:1036 flights12.0%
Departs 15:0534 flights11.4%

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 15:13 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OO 5297 runs 11 points worse at 61.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 5297 next to LNK to ORD

Every carrier on LNK to ORD combined arrived on time 75.5% of the time across 1,553 flights, so OO 5297 is 14 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 18 points.

OO 5297 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5297thin sample	299	61.3%	98 min	4.35%	D−
All SkyWest Airlines on LNK–ORD	1,553	75.5%	101 min	2.96%	B
All carriers on LNK–ORD	1,553	75.5%	101 min	2.96%	B
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5297 quarter by quarter

OO 5297 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 55.0%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 75 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 202543 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights59.0%
Jan–Mar 202684 flights58.2%
Apr–Jun 202685 flights55.0%

Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5297 did best on Tuesday at 73.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 52.5%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5297 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 11,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
50%
Extreme weather
22%
Carrier
14%
National Airspace System
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,741 delay minutes reported on OO 5297.

Cancellations run at 4.35%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.4% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including DEN to PSP (31), DEN to SAF (18) and IAH to MKE (5), 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. 299 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: 4.35% of its 299 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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.

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