Flight number record

OO 5622

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Lincoln

Route: DEN → LNK
Departs: 17:25
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5622, 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 5622 draws a D+. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 5622 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 169 extra late arrivals.

On time

60.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights

Avg delay

99 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.27%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

21.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.6% 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 5622 flies

OO 5622 flies DEN to LNK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:25, used on 172 of 364 flights, with 17:30 (82 flights) and 17:35 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 17:25172 flights47.3%
Departs 17:3082 flights22.5%
Departs 17:3542 flights11.5%

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 17:25 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OO 5622 runs 8 points worse at 60.7%. 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 5622 next to DEN to LNK

Every carrier on DEN to LNK combined arrived on time 76.3% of the time across 1,593 flights, so OO 5622 is 16 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 18 points.

OO 5622 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5622thin sample	364	60.7%	99 min	0.27%	D+
All SkyWest Airlines on DEN–LNK	1,593	76.3%	87 min	0.82%	B+
All carriers on DEN–LNK	1,593	76.3%	87 min	0.82%	B+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5622 quarter by quarter

OO 5622 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 69.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 46.7%, a swing of 23 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights46.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights69.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights66.3%

Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5622 did best on Saturday at 66.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5622 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 14,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
9%

35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 13,916 delay minutes reported on OO 5622.

Cancellations are rare at 0.27%, 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 21.6% 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.

Every one of the 364 flights under OO 5622 in the data flew DEN to LNK. 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. 364 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 5622

For a booking, OO 5622 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 21.6% 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.

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.

Key figures