Flight number record
OO 6265
SkyWest Airlines · Sacramento to Los Angeles
- Route
- SMF → LAX
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 359
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 6265, 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 6265 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 359 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, OO 6265's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 126 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 359 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When OO 6265 flies
OO 6265 flies SMF to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 125 of 359 flights, with 07:15 (42 flights) and 06:37 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00125 flights34.8%
- Departs 07:1542 flights11.7%
- Departs 06:3736 flights10.0%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and OO 6265 runs level with that at 89.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
OO 6265 next to SMF to LAX
Every carrier on SMF to LAX combined arrived on time 85.6% of the time across 5,717 flights, so OO 6265 is 4 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 3,558 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 89.9% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 78.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 6265thin sample | 359 | 89.9% | 80 min | 0.56% | A+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on SMF–LAX | 3,558 | 89.9% | 87 min | 0.39% | A+ |
| All carriers on SMF–LAX | 5,717 | 85.6% | 67 min | 0.44% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 855,406 | 78.7% | 88 min | 1.79% | B |
Across the year
OO 6265 quarter by quarter
OO 6265 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 94.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 84.5%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 90 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 202528 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%
- Jul–Sep 202658 flights84.5%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 6265 ranged from 84.3% on Saturday to 94.2% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late OO 6265 runs when it is late
OO 6265 often beats the schedule: 120 of 357 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 36 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights33.6%
- Within 15 min201 flights56.3%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 18 of 357 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for OO 6265
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 May 2026, 8 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2026 | 8 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 April 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 November 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 March 2026 | 3 hours 26 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why OO 6265 runs late
Carrier accounts for 64% of the 2,872 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 64%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
- 1%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,832 of the 2,872 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,872 delay minutes reported on OO 6265.
Cancellations are rare at 0.56%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
Every one of the 359 flights under OO 6265 in the data flew SMF to LAX. 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. 359 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 6265
For a booking, OO 6265 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.9% on time and 0.56% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
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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.