Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO3789
Seattle (SEA) to San Jose (SJC) · scheduled 11:25 AM – 1:43 PM
How OO3789 performs
822 operations, December 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 822 operations, December 2023 – July 2026 · If OO3789 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where OO3789 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3789 | 81.8% | 0.00% | -6 min | 6.2% | 822 |
| SkyWest Airlines on SEA → SJC | 86.7% | 0.09% | -7 min | 3.8% | 4,521 |
| All SEA → SJC flights | 81.3% | 0.73% | -5 min | 4.4% | 13,887 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026
Why OO3789 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO3789 on SEA → SJC. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies OO3789 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying OO3789 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into SEA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 745 of 822 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| OO3789 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often OO3789’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves SEA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SJC?
OO3789 pushes back an average of 7.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at SJC an average of 2.8 minutes late. The 4.6 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 25.6 minutes on the taxiways at SEA, 1.8 minutes longer than a typical SEA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SJC, OO3789 spends 3.9 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at SJC spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached SJC. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 44,293 departures from SEA scheduled in the clock hour OO3789 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SJC (146,904 flights), not just OO3789’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves SEA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO3789 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 44,293 departures from SEA are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 510,205 across the whole day.
OO3789 is scheduled out of SEA at 11:25 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from SEA in that hour arrive on time 74.7% of the time against 79.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.4 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from SEA to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · December 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes OO3789 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJC→SEA San Jose to Seattle | March 10, 2024 – July 31, 2026 | 440 | 80.7% |
| STL→DTW St. Louis to Detroit | December 21, 2025 – January 4, 2026 | 15 | — |
| LEX→DTW Lexington to Detroit | December 20, 2025 | 1 | — |
| MDW→DTW Chicago to Detroit | December 19, 2024 – January 5, 2025 | 18 | — |
| MKE→LGA Milwaukee to New York | May 7, 2024 – June 6, 2024 | 23 | — |
| DTW→SDF Detroit to Louisville | January 15, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 44 | — |
| SDF→DTW Louisville to Detroit | January 15, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 44 | — |
| DTW→OMA Detroit to Omaha | January 13, 2024 – February 3, 2024 | 5 | — |
| OMA→DTW Omaha to Detroit | January 13, 2024 – February 3, 2024 | 5 | — |
| FAR→MSP Fargo to Minneapolis | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| MSP→FAR Minneapolis to Fargo | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| MSP→OMA Minneapolis to Omaha | December 7–15, 2023 | 8 | — |
| OMA→MSP Omaha to Minneapolis | December 7–15, 2023 | 8 | — |
| MSP→RST Minneapolis to Rochester | December 9, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DTW→CMH Detroit to Columbus | August 3, 2023 – November 24, 2023 | 6 | — |
| SJC→LAX San Jose to Los Angeles | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 8 | — |
| ONT→SLC Ontario to Salt Lake City | October 9–27, 2023 | 17 | — |
| SLC→SMF Salt Lake City to Sacramento | September 5, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 12 | — |
| SMF→SLC Sacramento to Salt Lake City | September 5, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 12 | — |
| CMH→DTW Columbus to Detroit | July 1, 2023 – September 10, 2023 | 16 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO3789 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
33 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 822 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering December 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3840 | SkyWest Airlines | 88.7% | 7 min early | 690 |
| OO3736 | SkyWest Airlines | 88.0% | 5 min early | 768 |
| OO3789 this flight | SkyWest Airlines | 81.8% | 6 min early | 822 |
| AS1080 | Alaska Airlines | 81.7% | 4 min early | 617 |
| AS1310 | Alaska Airlines | 74.5% | 1 min early | 745 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. OO3789 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 822 records of OO3789 operating SEA → SJC, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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