Flight number record
OO 6515
SkyWest Airlines · Los Angeles to Albuquerque
- Route
- LAX → ABQ
- Departs
- 19:20
- Flights
- 281
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s OO 6515, 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 6515 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 281 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
81.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 281 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 281 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 6515 flies
OO 6515 flies LAX to ABQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:20, used on 47 of 281 flights, with 18:40 (32 flights) and 18:50 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:2047 flights16.7%
- Departs 18:4032 flights11.4%
- Departs 18:5031 flights11.0%
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 19:20 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and OO 6515 runs 13 points better at 81.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
OO 6515 next to LAX to ABQ
Every carrier on LAX to ABQ combined arrived on time 86.0% of the time across 2,198 flights, so OO 6515 is 5 points behind it. SkyWest flew 1,718 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 87.0% on time. Across its whole network SkyWest Airlines managed 79.0%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO 6515thin sample | 281 | 81.5% | 101 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All SkyWest Airlines on LAX–ABQ | 1,718 | 87.0% | 75 min | 0.29% | A+ |
| All carriers on LAX–ABQ | 2,198 | 86.0% | 66 min | 0.27% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines, whole network | 852,935 | 79.0% | 88 min | 1.77% | B |
Across the year
OO 6515 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter OO 6515 held fairly steady: 82.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 81.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202564 flights82.8%
- Oct–Dec 202572 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202668 flights83.8%
- Apr–Jun 202677 flights81.8%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, OO 6515 did best on Thursday at 88.9% on time and worst on Monday at 75.7%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why OO 6515 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 61% of the 5,250 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.
- 61%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, 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 3,224 of the 5,250 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,250 delay minutes reported on OO 6515.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 677 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 two other city pairs in the data, including STL to PHX (9) and ORD to STL (1), but none flew often enough under OO 6515 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to LAX to ABQ only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 281 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 6515
For a booking, read OO 6515 as 81.5% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 281 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to ABQ, every carrier and departure
- ABQ to LAX, the return direction
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record
- Every SkyWest Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.