Flight number record
OO 5982
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Akron
- Route
- ORD → CAK
- Departs
- 21:20
- Flights
- 275
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 5982, 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 5982 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 275 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so OO 5982 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 153 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.27%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 275 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When OO 5982 flies
OO 5982 flies ORD to CAK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:20, used on 86 of 275 flights, with 21:25 (39 flights) and 19:35 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 21:2086 flights31.3%
- Departs 21:2539 flights14.2%
- Departs 19:3536 flights13.1%
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 21:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and OO 5982 runs 8 points worse at 62.0%. 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 5982 next to ORD to CAK
Every carrier on ORD to CAK combined arrived on time 63.6% of the time across 2,089 flights, so OO 5982 is 2 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,479 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.9% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 5982thin sample | 275 | 62.0% | 94 min | 7.27% | D− |
| All SkyWest Airlines on ORD–CAK | 1,479 | 64.9% | 88 min | 4.87% | D− |
| All carriers on ORD–CAK | 2,089 | 63.6% | 95 min | 5.36% | D− |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 5982 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 5982 held fairly steady: 61.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 61.0% in Jan–Mar 2026, 66.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 56.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202572 flights61.8%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights61.0%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights66.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights56.9%
Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 5982 did best on Sunday at 67.6% on time and worst on Tuesday at 48.6%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 5982 runs when it is late
The 97 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early52 flights20.4%
- Within 15 min106 flights41.6%
- 15–29 min late31 flights12.2%
- 30–59 min late28 flights11.0%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights8.6%
- 2+ hours late16 flights6.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 255 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 93 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 18 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 CAK.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 5982
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 March 2026, 14 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across March, August and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2026 | 14 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 August 2026 | 13 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 February 2026 | 13 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 March 2026 | 12 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 February 2026 | 11 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 5982 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 9,073 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,073 delay minutes reported on OO 5982.
Cancellations run at 7.27%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
14.9% 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including ORD to SBN (19), but none flew often enough under OO 5982 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to ORD to CAK only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 275 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 5982
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OO 5982: 7.27% of its 275 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
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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 ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.