Flight number record

OO 5893

SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Santa Barbara

Route: LAX → SBA
Departs: 16:10
Flights: 258
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5893, 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 5893 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 5893's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 252 completed flights

Avg delay

54 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.33%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 258 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 5893 flies

OO 5893 flies LAX to SBA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:10, used on 52 of 258 flights, with 15:20 (49 flights) and 15:18 (26 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:1052 flights20.2%
Departs 15:2049 flights19.0%
Departs 15:1826 flights10.1%

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 16:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OO 5893 runs 13 points better at 85.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 5893 next to LAX to SBA

Every carrier on LAX to SBA combined arrived on time 89.2% of the time across 687 flights, so OO 5893 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

OO 5893 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 5893thin sample	258	85.7%	54 min	2.33%	A
All SkyWest Airlines on LAX–SBA	687	89.2%	109 min	1.31%	A
All carriers on LAX–SBA	687	89.2%	109 min	1.31%	A
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 5893 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 5893 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.3% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202563 flights83.1%
Jan–Mar 202670 flights91.3%
Apr–Jun 202634 flights85.3%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 5893 ranged from 82.9% on Sunday to 88.4% on Monday. With about 37 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 5893 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 1,926 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
50%
Carrier
33%
National Airspace System
17%

50% 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 1,926 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 50 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 1,926 delay minutes reported on OO 5893.

Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to FWA (30), ORD to PIA (6) and ATW to ORD (2), but none flew often enough under OO 5893 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to SBA only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 258 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 5893

For a booking, read OO 5893 as 85.7% on time with 2.33% cancelled over 258 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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