Flight number record

OO 6265

SkyWest Airlines · Sacramento to Los Angeles

Route: SMF → LAX
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, OO 6265's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 136 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

113 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.84%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 6265 flies

OO 6265 flies SMF to LAX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 68 of 357 flights, with 06:30 (50 flights) and 06:00 (43 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0068 flights19.0%
Departs 06:3050 flights14.0%
Departs 06:0043 flights12.0%

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 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 91.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

OO 6265 next to SMF to LAX

Every carrier on SMF to LAX combined arrived on time 86.0% of the time across 5,637 flights, so OO 6265 is 5 points ahead of it. SkyWest flew 3,517 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 90.1% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 12 points.

OO 6265 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 6265thin sample	357	91.2%	113 min	0.84%	A+
All SkyWest Airlines on SMF–LAX	3,517	90.1%	86 min	0.45%	A+
All carriers on SMF–LAX	5,637	86.0%	66 min	0.44%	A+
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 6265 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 6265 held fairly steady: 95.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.9% 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 202584 flights95.2%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.6%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.9%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 6265 ranged from 86.5% on Thursday to 98.0% on Friday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why OO 6265 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 3,489 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.

Carrier
75%
Late-arriving aircraft
21%
Extreme weather
3%
National Airspace System
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,602 of the 3,489 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,489 delay minutes reported on OO 6265.

Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, below the national 1.81% 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 4.0% 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.

Every one of the 357 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. 357 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: 91.2% on time and 0.84% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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