Flight number record

OO 5314

SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Lincoln

Route: ORD → LNK
Departs: 19:40
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5314, 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 5314 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 56.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 21 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5314 runs 21 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 212 extra late arrivals.

On time

56.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

111 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.88%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

22.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 22.4% 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 5314 flies

OO 5314 flies ORD to LNK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:40, used on 116 of 361 flights, with 20:00 (49 flights) and 19:51 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 19:40116 flights32.1%
Departs 20:0049 flights13.6%
Departs 19:5141 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 19:40 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OO 5314 runs 12 points worse at 56.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

OO 5314 next to ORD to LNK

Every carrier on ORD to LNK combined arrived on time 62.9% of the time across 1,555 flights, so OO 5314 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 23 points.

OO 5314 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5314thin sample	361	56.4%	111 min	3.88%	D−
All SkyWest Airlines on ORD–LNK	1,555	62.9%	91 min	3.02%	D−
All carriers on ORD–LNK	1,555	62.9%	91 min	3.02%	D−
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5314 quarter by quarter

OO 5314 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 47.7%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 90 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 202591 flights65.9%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights51.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights47.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights60.2%

Scale runs 40% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5314 did best on Monday at 64.6% on time and worst on Friday at 46.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5314 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 17,000 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
45%
Carrier
21%
Extreme weather
19%
National Airspace System
15%

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 16,682 delay minutes reported on OO 5314.

Cancellations run at 3.88%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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. 22.4% 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.

Every one of the 361 flights under OO 5314 in the data flew ORD to LNK. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 361 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 5314

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OO 5314: 3.88% of its 361 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.

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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