Flight number record

OO 5497

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Wichita

Route: DEN → ICT
Departs: 09:35
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5497, 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 5497 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5497's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 138 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

1.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 5497 flies

OO 5497 flies DEN to ICT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:35, used on 108 of 361 flights, with 09:38 (57 flights) and 09:48 (50 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 09:35108 flights29.9%
Departs 09:3857 flights15.8%
Departs 09:4850 flights13.9%

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 09:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and OO 5497 runs 7 points better at 91.4%. 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 5497 next to DEN to ICT

Every carrier on DEN to ICT combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 2,194 flights, so OO 5497 is 13 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 1,263 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.4% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

OO 5497 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5497thin sample	361	91.4%	46 min	0.28%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on DEN–ICT	1,263	86.4%	62 min	0.63%	A+
All carriers on DEN–ICT	2,194	78.0%	63 min	0.68%	B+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5497 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 5497 held fairly steady: 89.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 88.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.1%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights95.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%

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

By weekday, OO 5497 ranged from 86.3% on Monday to 96.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 5497 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 69% of the 1,427 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
69%
Late-arriving aircraft
17%
National Airspace System
15%

The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, 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 983 of the 1,427 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,427 delay minutes reported on OO 5497.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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 1.9% 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.

Every one of the 361 flights under OO 5497 in the data flew DEN to ICT. 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 5497

For a booking, OO 5497 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.4% on time and 0.28% 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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