Flight number record

OO 5741

SkyWest Airlines · Nashville to Chicago

Route: BNA → ORD
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 261
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5741, 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 5741 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 261 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5741's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

87.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 256 completed flights

Avg delay

133 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.92%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 261 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 5741 flies

OO 5741 flies BNA to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 111 of 261 flights, with 06:04 (87 flights) and 06:07 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00111 flights42.5%
Departs 06:0487 flights33.3%
Departs 06:0737 flights14.2%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OO 5741 runs 2 points worse at 87.1%. 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 5741 next to BNA to ORD

Every carrier on BNA to ORD combined arrived on time 70.4% of the time across 5,024 flights, so OO 5741 is 17 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 1,467 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.9% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

OO 5741 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5741thin sample	261	87.1%	133 min	1.92%	A
All SkyWest Airlines on BNA–ORD	1,467	65.9%	102 min	3.68%	C−
All carriers on BNA–ORD	5,024	70.4%	93 min	2.79%	C
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5741 quarter by quarter

OO 5741 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.4% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 78.0%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 87 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 flights93.4%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights78.0%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights89.0%
Apr–Jun 20261 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5741 did best on Tuesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Monday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 5741 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 72% of the 4,398 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
72%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
6%
Late-arriving aircraft
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, 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 3,188 of the 4,398 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,398 delay minutes reported on OO 5741.

Cancellations sit at 1.92% 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 about 2.2 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to ORF (13), ABE to ORD (11) and MEM to ORD (9), but none flew often enough under OO 5741 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BNA to ORD only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 261 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 5741

For a booking, read OO 5741 as 87.1% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 261 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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