Flight number record

OO 5827

SkyWest Airlines · Denver to Lincoln

Route: DEN → LNK
Departs: 13:55
Flights: 363
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5827, 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 5827 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5827's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.38%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

6.8%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 5827 flies

OO 5827 flies DEN to LNK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:55, used on 105 of 363 flights, with 13:45 (77 flights) and 13:40 (56 flights) next.

Departs 13:55105 flights28.9%
Departs 13:4577 flights21.2%
Departs 13:4056 flights15.4%

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 13:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and OO 5827 runs 6 points better at 84.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

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Against the route

OO 5827 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 5827 is 7 points ahead of it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 6 points.

OO 5827 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5827thin sample	363	84.5%	59 min	1.38%	B
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 5827 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 5827 held fairly steady: 86.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 84.1% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 85.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
Oct–Dec 202591 flights86.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.5%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5827 did best on Monday at 92.3% on time and worst on Friday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late OO 5827 runs when it is late

OO 5827 often beats the schedule: 115 of 354 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.

15+ min early115 flights32.5%
Within 15 min184 flights52.0%
15–29 min late21 flights5.9%
30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
1–2 hours late20 flights5.6%
2+ hours late4 flights1.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 36 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 21 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 LNK.

The worst days

Worst days for OO 5827

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 August 2026, 3 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of OO 5827 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 August 2026	3 hours 25 minutes	Carrier
20 February 2026	2 hours 42 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
22 May 2026	2 hours 17 minutes	Carrier
19 March 2026	2 hours 11 minutes	Carrier
11 December 2025	1 hour 47 minutes	National Airspace System

Delay causes

Why OO 5827 runs late

Carrier accounts for 54% of the 3,268 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
54%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,757 of the 3,268 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,268 delay minutes reported on OO 5827.

Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.10%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 363 flights under OO 5827 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 5827

For a booking, read OO 5827 as 84.5% on time with 1.38% cancelled over 363 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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