Flight number record
OO 5472
SkyWest Airlines · Midland to Denver
- Route
- MAF → DEN
- Departs
- 17:00
- Flights
- 312
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5472, 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 5472 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 312 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OO 5472 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 138 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.28%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
15.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 312 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When OO 5472 flies
OO 5472 flies MAF to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:00, used on 69 of 312 flights, with 17:18 (60 flights) and 17:23 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 17:0069 flights22.1%
- Departs 17:1860 flights19.2%
- Departs 17:2340 flights12.8%
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 17:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and OO 5472 runs 5 points worse at 63.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
OO 5472 next to MAF to DEN
Every carrier on MAF to DEN combined arrived on time 84.0% of the time across 1,500 flights, so OO 5472 is 21 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,225 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5472thin sample | 312 | 63.5% | 85 min | 1.28% | D |
| All SkyWest Airlines on MAF–DEN | 1,225 | 81.4% | 94 min | 0.90% | B+ |
| All carriers on MAF–DEN | 1,500 | 84.0% | 91 min | 0.93% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5472 quarter by quarter
OO 5472 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 52.9%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 78 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights69.6%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights66.2%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights59.7%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights52.9%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5472 ranged from 59.6% on Wednesday to 68.0% on Sunday. With about 45 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5472 runs when it is late
The 112 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 47 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early36 flights11.7%
- Within 15 min159 flights51.8%
- 15–29 min late35 flights11.4%
- 30–59 min late30 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late26 flights8.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 86 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 33 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 DEN.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 5472
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 December 2025, 8 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2025 | 8 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 26 October 2025 | 6 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 March 2026 | 5 hours 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 15 May 2026 | 5 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 January 2026 | 5 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 5472 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 43% of the 9,490 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%National Airspace System
- 33%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
43% 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 4,103 minutes out of 9,490, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 9,490 delay minutes reported on OO 5472.
Cancellations sit at 1.28% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
15.3% 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 563 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 two other city pairs in the data, including DEN to ABQ (4) and OMA to DEN (3), but none flew often enough under OO 5472 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MAF to DEN only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 312 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 5472
For a booking, OO 5472 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 15.3% 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
- MAF to DEN, every carrier and departure
- DEN to MAF, the return direction
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- 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
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.