Flight number record

OO 6496

SkyWest Airlines · Santa Fe to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: SAF → DFW
Departs: 16:15
Flights: 274
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 6496, 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 6496 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 274 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so OO 6496 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 104 extra late arrivals.

On time

67.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 259 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.47%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.2%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 274 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When OO 6496 flies

OO 6496 flies SAF to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:15, used on 46 of 274 flights, with 16:48 (32 flights) and 17:05 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 16:1546 flights16.8%
Departs 16:4832 flights11.7%
Departs 17:0532 flights11.7%

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 16:15 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and OO 6496 runs 5 points worse at 67.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

OO 6496 next to SAF to DFW

Every carrier on SAF to DFW combined arrived on time 78.8% of the time across 1,758 flights, so OO 6496 is 12 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,753 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.0% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight trails by 12 points.

OO 6496 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OO 6496thin sample	274	67.2%	68 min	5.47%	C−
All SkyWest Airlines on SAF–DFW	1,753	79.0%	82 min	2.97%	B
All carriers on SAF–DFW	1,758	78.8%	82 min	2.96%	B
SkyWest Airlines, whole network	852,935	79.0%	88 min	1.77%	B

Across the year

OO 6496 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter OO 6496 held fairly steady: 62.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 66.7% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 71.8% in Jan–Mar 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 202591 flights62.4%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights66.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.8%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, OO 6496 did best on Tuesday at 74.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 57.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why OO 6496 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 5,754 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
32%
Extreme weather
27%
Carrier
23%
National Airspace System
18%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 27% 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 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,754 delay minutes reported on OO 6496.

Cancellations run at 5.47%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 551 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including DFW to SAF (182), but none flew often enough under OO 6496 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SAF to DFW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 274 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 6496

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on OO 6496: 5.47% of its 274 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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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