Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO3896
Salt Lake City (SLC) to Omaha (OMA) · scheduled 1:55 PM – 5:16 PM
How OO3896 performs
934 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
OO3896 arrived on time 90.9% of the time, against 89.2% for all SLC → OMA flights, so this departure is 1.7 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.7 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 934 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If OO3896 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How OO3896 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 93% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 8 min early, and the worst tenth are only 21 minutes worse than that.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where OO3896 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3896 | 90.9% | 0.11% | -8 min | 1.8% | 934 |
| SkyWest Airlines on SLC → OMA | 89.2% | 0.18% | -7 min | 2.4% | 2,219 |
| All SLC → OMA flights | 89.2% | 0.18% | -7 min | 2.4% | 2,220 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why OO3896 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 OO3896 on SLC → 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 OO3896 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying OO3896 came in 15 or more minutes late on 5% 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 SLC just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 874 of 933 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 |
|---|---|
| OO3896 | 5% |
| 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 OO3896’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 SLC late, does that still matter by the time it reaches OMA?
OO3896 pushes back an average of 0.1 minutes early and reaches the gate at OMA an average of 4.1 minutes early. The 4.0 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. Its 17.5 minutes on the taxiways at SLC is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at OMA, OO3896 spends 5.3 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 about what any arrival at OMA 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 OMA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 21,588 departures from SLC scheduled in the clock hour OO3896 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 OO3896’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves SLC
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO3896 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 21,588 departures from SLC are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 355,300 across the whole day.
OO3896 is scheduled out of SLC at 1:55 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from SLC in that hour arrive on time 82.0% of the time against 84.0% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour OO3896 leaves in is an ordinary one for SLC and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from SLC 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.
By day of week
Does OO3896 run worse on particular days?
Monday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 6.2 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes OO3896 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→SLC Omaha to Salt Lake City | September 5, 2023 – July 31, 2026 | 502 | 91.2% |
| BUF→DTW Buffalo to Detroit | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 18 | — |
| DTW→BUF Detroit to Buffalo | February 12, 2026 – March 6, 2026 | 18 | — |
| LAN→DTW Lansing to Detroit | January 9, 2024 – March 9, 2024 | 61 | — |
| JFK→MSP New York to Minneapolis | January 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| PIT→MSP Pittsburgh to Minneapolis | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 63 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO3896 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.
13 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 934 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 934 records of OO3896 operating SLC → 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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