Flight number record
OO 5462
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Denver
- Route
- FAR → DEN
- Departs
- 11:35
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5462, 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 5462 draws a C. About 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 362 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5462 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 115 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.8% 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 5462 flies
OO 5462 flies FAR to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:35, used on 93 of 362 flights, with 11:32 (86 flights) and 11:31 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:3593 flights25.7%
- Departs 11:3286 flights23.8%
- Departs 11:3152 flights14.4%
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 11:35 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OO 5462 runs 13 points worse at 66.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
OO 5462 next to FAR to DEN
Every carrier on FAR to DEN combined arrived on time 70.9% of the time across 1,425 flights, so OO 5462 is 5 points behind it. SkyWest flew 879 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.1% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5462thin sample | 362 | 66.1% | 98 min | 1.38% | C |
| All SkyWest Airlines on FAR–DEN | 879 | 70.1% | 101 min | 1.48% | C |
| All carriers on FAR–DEN | 1,425 | 70.9% | 91 min | 1.05% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 852,935 | 79.0% | 88 min | 1.77% | B |
Across the year
OO 5462 quarter by quarter
OO 5462 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 56.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 flights70.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights66.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights56.3%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights70.5%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5462 did best on Thursday at 73.5% on time and worst on Friday at 55.8%. 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 5462 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 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 11,820 delay minutes reported on OO 5462.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 16.8% 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 627 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 one other city pair in the data, including BOI to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under OO 5462 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to FAR to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 362 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 5462
For a booking, OO 5462 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 16.8% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- FAR to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to FAR, the return direction
- SkyWest Airlines 4634 on the same route65.9%
- Denver International (DEN) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record
- Every SkyWest Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.