Flight number record

OO 5649

SkyWest Airlines · Lincoln to Denver

Route: LNK → DEN
Departs: 13:00
Flights: 278
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5649, 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 5649 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5649's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.80%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 5649 flies

OO 5649 flies LNK to DEN without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:00, used on 68 of 278 flights, with 13:01 (50 flights) and 13:45 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:0068 flights24.5%
Departs 13:0150 flights18.0%
Departs 13:4537 flights13.3%

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 13:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and OO 5649 runs 8 points better at 86.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 5649 next to LNK to DEN

Every carrier on LNK to DEN combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 1,594 flights, so OO 5649 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

OO 5649 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5649thin sample	278	86.4%	98 min	1.80%	A
All SkyWest Airlines on LNK–DEN	1,594	79.5%	98 min	1.00%	B
All carriers on LNK–DEN	1,594	79.5%	98 min	1.00%	B
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5649 quarter by quarter

OO 5649 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 91.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 93 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 20256 flights—
Oct–Dec 202591 flights89.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.2%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5649 did best on Tuesday at 92.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 80.0%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5649 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 3,623 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
51%
Carrier
24%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
3%

51% 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 3,623 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 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 3,623 delay minutes reported on OO 5649.

Cancellations sit at 1.80% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including SBP to SFO (49) and SBN to ORD (20), but none flew often enough under OO 5649 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LNK to DEN only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 278 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 5649

For a booking, read OO 5649 as 86.4% on time with 1.80% cancelled over 278 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular 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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