Flight number record
OO 5542
SkyWest Airlines · Palm Springs to Los Angeles
- Route
- PSP → LAX
- Departs
- 07:26
- Flights
- 295
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5542, 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 5542 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 295 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 5542's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 295 completed flights
Avg delay
46 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
1.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 295 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 5542 flies
OO 5542 flies PSP to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:26, used on 48 of 295 flights, with 08:34 (37 flights) and 07:17 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 07:2648 flights16.3%
- Departs 08:3437 flights12.5%
- Departs 07:1734 flights11.5%
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 07:26 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OO 5542 runs level with that at 87.5%. 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 5542 next to PSP to LAX
Every carrier on PSP to LAX combined arrived on time 85.6% of the time across 501 flights, so OO 5542 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5542thin sample | 295 | 87.5% | 46 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on PSP–LAX | 501 | 85.6% | 65 min | 0.40% | A+ |
| All carriers on PSP–LAX | 501 | 85.6% | 65 min | 0.40% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5542 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 5542 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 84.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 86.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 202650 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202662 flights88.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 75% to 95%.
By weekday, OO 5542 did best on Wednesday at 94.7% on time and worst on Monday at 77.8%. Each day rests on about 42 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5542 runs when it is late
OO 5542 often beats the schedule: 75 of 295 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 22 of the 37 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 5 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights25.4%
- Within 15 min183 flights62.0%
- 15–29 min late22 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late1 flights0.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 295 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 19 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 5542
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 July 2026, 9 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2026 | 9 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 October 2025 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 August 2026 | 1 hour 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 July 2026 | 1 hour 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 1 hour 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 5542 runs late
Carrier accounts for 87% of the 1,691 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 87%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 87%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,468 of the 1,691 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,691 delay minutes reported on OO 5542.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are 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 1.7% 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including ORD to FAR (32), ORD to GRB (23) and IAH to OKC (1), but none flew often enough under OO 5542 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PSP to LAX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 295 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 5542
For a booking, OO 5542 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.5% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 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
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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.