Flight number record
OO 5472
SkyWest Airlines · Midland to Denver
- Route
- MAF → DEN
- Departs
- 17:00
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5472 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 133 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 266 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.11%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 270 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% 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 5472 flies
OO 5472 flies MAF to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:00, used on 80 of 270 flights, with 17:18 (60 flights) and 17:20 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:0080 flights29.6%
- Departs 17:1860 flights22.2%
- Departs 17:2033 flights12.2%
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 17:00 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OO 5472 runs 4 points worse at 64.3%. 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 5472 next to MAF to DEN
Every carrier on MAF to DEN combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 1,463 flights, so OO 5472 is 17 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,198 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5472thin sample | 270 | 64.3% | 75 min | 1.11% | D |
| All SkyWest Airlines on MAF–DEN | 1,198 | 78.7% | 89 min | 1.17% | B |
| All carriers on MAF–DEN | 1,463 | 81.7% | 88 min | 1.09% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 852,935 | 79.0% | 88 min | 1.77% | 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 2025 at 58.3%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 68 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 202537 flights58.3%
- Oct–Dec 202580 flights69.6%
- Jan–Mar 202676 flights66.2%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights59.7%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5472 did best on Sunday at 74.4% on time and worst on Friday at 59.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OO 5472 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 7,085 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 38%National Airspace System
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,974 of the 7,085 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,085 delay minutes reported on OO 5472.
Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
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. 12.4% 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 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. 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 four other city pairs in the data, including IAH to CRP (23), TUL to IAH (12) and DEN to ABQ (4), 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. 270 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. 12.4% 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
- SkyWest Airlines 4807 on the same route83.8%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.