Flight number record

OO 5487

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Albuquerque

Route: DEN → ABQ
Departs: 08:10
Flights: 335
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5487, 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 5487 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 335 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5487's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 146 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 332 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.60%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 335 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When OO 5487 flies

OO 5487 flies DEN to ABQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:10, used on 152 of 335 flights, with 08:05 (95 flights) and 08:01 (57 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:10152 flights45.4%
Departs 08:0595 flights28.4%
Departs 08:0157 flights17.0%

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 08:10 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and OO 5487 runs 8 points better at 92.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

OO 5487 next to DEN to ABQ

Every carrier on DEN to ABQ combined arrived on time 77.4% of the time across 3,176 flights, so OO 5487 is 15 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 895 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 13 points.

OO 5487 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5487thin sample	335	92.2%	48 min	0.60%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on DEN–ABQ	895	83.5%	62 min	0.78%	B+
All carriers on DEN–ABQ	3,176	77.4%	58 min	0.50%	B+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5487 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 5487 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights92.0%
Jan–Mar 202665 flights93.8%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights90.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5487 ranged from 84.8% on Thursday to 95.9% on Monday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 5487 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 1,249 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.

Carrier
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
Extreme weather
15%
National Airspace System
2%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,249 delay minutes reported on OO 5487.

Cancellations are rare at 0.60%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.1% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including ORD to CHA (24), CID to ORD (1) and RAP to ORD (1), but none flew often enough under OO 5487 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DEN to ABQ only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 335 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 5487

For a booking, OO 5487 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 0.60% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.

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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