Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO3903
Salt Lake City (SLC) to Oakland (OAK) · scheduled 3:10 PM – 4:21 PM
How OO3903 performs
970 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
OO3903 arrived on time 91.3% of the time, against 88.3% for all SLC → OAK flights, so this departure is 3.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 970 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If OO3903 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 OO3903 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
Every day of the week performs about the same on this flight, steadier than 95% of 1,710 comparable flight numbers.
93.1% on time on the best day (Friday) against 88.8% on the worst (Monday).
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 OO3903 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3903 | 91.3% | 0.10% | -8 min | 2.5% | 970 |
| SkyWest Airlines on SLC → OAK | 92.5% | 0.12% | -8 min | 2.2% | 2,446 |
| All SLC → OAK flights | 88.3% | 0.14% | -8 min | 3.3% | 5,775 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why OO3903 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 OO3903 on SLC → OAK. 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 OO3903 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying OO3903 came in 15 or more minutes late on 6% 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, 936 of 969 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 |
|---|---|
| OO3903 | 6% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
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 60 to 89 minutes. How often OO3903’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 OAK?
OO3903 pushes back an average of 1.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at OAK an average of 3.8 minutes early. The 5.4 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 17.9 minutes on the taxiways at SLC is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at OAK, OO3903 spends 4.6 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 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical OAK arrival (5.8 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 OAK. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 32,638 departures from SLC scheduled in the clock hour OO3903 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at OAK (117,211 flights), not just OO3903’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. OO3903 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,638 departures from SLC are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 355,300 across the whole day.
OO3903 is scheduled out of SLC at 3:10 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from SLC in that hour arrive on time 83.7% of the time against 84.0% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour OO3903 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 OO3903 run worse on particular days?
Friday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 4.3 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 OO3903 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAK→SLC Oakland to Salt Lake City | October 9, 2023 – July 31, 2026 | 929 | 91.6% |
| SEA→GEG Seattle to Spokane | January 4, 2026 | 1 | — |
| GFK→MSP Grand Forks to Minneapolis | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 8 | — |
| MSP→GFK Minneapolis to Grand Forks | October 28, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 8 | — |
| SDF→MSP Louisville to Minneapolis | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO3903 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.
11 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 970 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO4134 | SkyWest Airlines | 93.3% | 7 min early | 778 |
| OO3903 this flight | SkyWest Airlines | 91.3% | 8 min early | 970 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. OO3903 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 970 records of OO3903 operating SLC → OAK, 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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