Flight number record

OO 5824

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Lincoln

Route: DEN → LNK
Departs: 20:25
Flights: 363
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5824, 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 5824 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OO 5824 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 72 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

87 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

11.6%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Schedule

When OO 5824 flies

OO 5824 flies DEN to LNK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:25, used on 117 of 363 flights, with 20:35 (58 flights) and 20:24 (53 flights) next.

Departs 20:25117 flights32.2%
Departs 20:3558 flights16.0%
Departs 20:2453 flights14.6%

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 20:25 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and OO 5824 runs level with that at 70.1%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

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Against the route

OO 5824 next to DEN to LNK

Every carrier on DEN to LNK combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 1,585 flights, so OO 5824 is 7 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight trails by 9 points.

OO 5824 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5824thin sample	363	70.1%	87 min	0.28%	C+
All SkyWest Airlines on DEN–LNK	1,585	77.1%	82 min	0.69%	B+
All carriers on DEN–LNK	1,585	77.1%	82 min	0.69%	B+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	855,406	78.7%	88 min	1.79%	B

Across the year

OO 5824 quarter by quarter

OO 5824 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 42.6%, a swing of 38 points on roughly 73 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 flights70.0%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights76.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights71.1%
Jul–Sep 202661 flights42.6%

Scale runs 35% to 85%.

By weekday, OO 5824 did best on Tuesday at 78.8% on time and worst on Friday at 61.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late OO 5824 runs when it is late

OO 5824 often beats the schedule: 107 of 361 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 108 late arrivals split 32 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 42 an hour or more.

15+ min early107 flights29.6%
Within 15 min146 flights40.4%
15–29 min late32 flights8.9%
30–59 min late34 flights9.4%
1–2 hours late23 flights6.4%
2+ hours late19 flights5.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

15 of 109 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for OO 5824

The latest arrival of the period was on 18 February 2026, 13 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of OO 5824 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
18 February 2026	13 hours 39 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
17 December 2025	11 hours 35 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
16 May 2026	10 hours 49 minutes	Extreme weather
24 December 2025	10 hours 47 minutes	Extreme weather
17 February 2026	3 hours 53 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why OO 5824 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 9,441 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
Extreme weather
24%
Carrier
21%
National Airspace System
16%

Extreme weather accounts for 24% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,441 delay minutes reported on OO 5824.

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

11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

Every one of the 363 flights under OO 5824 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. 363 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 5824

For a booking, OO 5824 is one of the weaker ways to fly DEN to LNK: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.

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.

Key figures