Flight number record

OO 5497

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Wichita

Route: DEN → ICT
Departs: 09:35
Flights: 361
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 50 minutes. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5497's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 118 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights

Avg delay

49 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

2.5%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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.

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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 129 of 361 flights, with 09:55 (82 flights) and 09:38 (57 flights) next.

Departs 09:35129 flights35.7%
Departs 09:5582 flights22.7%
Departs 09:3857 flights15.8%

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 09:35 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and OO 5497 runs 5 points better at 89.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

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Against the route

OO 5497 next to DEN to ICT

Every carrier on DEN to ICT combined arrived on time 77.7% of the time across 2,231 flights, so OO 5497 is 11 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 1,300 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.3% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

OO 5497 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5497thin sample	361	89.1%	49 min	0.28%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on DEN–ICT	1,300	85.3%	65 min	0.69%	A+
All carriers on DEN–ICT	2,231	77.7%	63 min	0.67%	B+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	855,406	78.7%	88 min	1.79%	B

Across the year

OO 5497 quarter by quarter

OO 5497 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 95.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 72 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 202530 flights80.0%
Oct–Dec 202589 flights88.8%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights95.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.2%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%.

By weekday, OO 5497 did best on Tuesday at 96.2% on time and worst on Monday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late OO 5497 runs when it is late

OO 5497 often beats the schedule: 99 of 359 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 39 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.

15+ min early99 flights27.6%
Within 15 min221 flights61.6%
15–29 min late17 flights4.7%
30–59 min late13 flights3.6%
1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
2+ hours late4 flights1.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 27 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for OO 5497

The latest arrival of the period was on 16 February 2026, 3 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of OO 5497 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
16 February 2026	3 hours 12 minutes	Carrier
6 July 2026	2 hours 56 minutes	Carrier
4 October 2025	2 hours 20 minutes	Carrier
20 March 2026	2 hours 19 minutes	Carrier
14 September 2025	1 hour 53 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why OO 5497 runs late

Carrier accounts for 80% of the 1,923 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
80%
National Airspace System
10%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,529 of the 1,923 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,923 delay minutes reported on OO 5497.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.89% 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 2.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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: 89.1% 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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