Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO3838
Minneapolis (MSP) to Omaha (OMA) · scheduled 11:00 AM – 12:35 PM
How OO3838 performs
752 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 752 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If OO3838 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where OO3838 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3838 | 79.4% | 0.40% | -8 min | 9.3% | 752 |
| SkyWest Airlines on MSP → OMA | 79.3% | 0.54% | -6 min | 8.7% | 3,691 |
| All MSP → OMA flights | 79.8% | 0.65% | -7 min | 8.4% | 4,297 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why OO3838 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 OO3838 on MSP → OMA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies OO3838 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying OO3838 came in 15 or more minutes late on 15% 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 MSP just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 620 of 749 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 |
|---|---|
| OO3838 | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 23% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 90 minutes to 3 hours. How often OO3838’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 September 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSP late, does that still matter by the time it reaches OMA?
OO3838 pushes back an average of 11.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at OMA an average of 7.3 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 23.1 minutes on the taxiways at MSP, 6.4 minutes longer than a typical MSP departure in the same hour.
On arrival at OMA, OO3838 spends 4.3 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 1.0 minutes shorter than a typical OMA arrival (5.3 min).
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 OMA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 21,917 departures from MSP scheduled in the clock hour OO3838 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at OMA (75,011 flights), not just OO3838’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves MSP
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO3838 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 21,917 departures from MSP are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 369,781 across the whole day.
OO3838 is scheduled out of MSP at 11:00 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from MSP in that hour arrive on time 83.8% of the time against 81.1% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour OO3838 leaves in is an ordinary one for MSP and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from MSP 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 · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes OO3838 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMA→MSP Omaha to Minneapolis | October 9, 2023 – June 21, 2026 | 372 | 80.5% |
| DTW→CMH Detroit to Columbus | December 6–13, 2025 | 2 | — |
| ATL→TRI Atlanta to Blountville | August 11, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 47 | — |
| TRI→ATL Blountville to Atlanta | August 11, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 47 | — |
| DTW→MEM Detroit to Memphis | June 8, 2025 – August 9, 2025 | 24 | — |
| MEM→DTW Memphis to Detroit | June 8, 2025 – July 6, 2025 | 19 | — |
| GRB→MSP Green Bay to Minneapolis | April 23, 2025 | 1 | — |
| MSP→GRB Minneapolis to Green Bay | April 23, 2025 | 1 | — |
| SLC→SMF Salt Lake City to Sacramento | November 5, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SMF→SLC Sacramento to Salt Lake City | November 5, 2023 | 1 | — |
| SEA→RDM Seattle to Redmond | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 7 | — |
| RDM→SEA Redmond to Seattle | November 2–3, 2023 | 2 | — |
| AGS→ATL Augusta to Atlanta | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ATL→AGS Atlanta to Augusta | November 1, 2023 | 1 | — |
| ATL→LFT Atlanta to Lafayette | October 14–21, 2023 | 2 | — |
| MFR→SLC Medford to Salt Lake City | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO3838 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.
51 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 752 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3838 this flight | SkyWest Airlines | 79.4% | 8 min early | 752 |
| OO3948 | SkyWest Airlines | 74.2% | 3 min early | 719 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. OO3838 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 752 records of OO3838 operating MSP → OMA, 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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