Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO3996
Washington (IAD) to Minneapolis (MSP) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 8:06 AM
How OO3996 performs
673 operations, June 2024 – July 2026.
OO3996 arrived on time 89.1% of the time, against 84.5% for all IAD → MSP flights, so this departure is 4.6 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.2 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 673 operations, June 2024 – July 2026 · If OO3996 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where OO3996 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO3996 | 89.1% | 1.34% | -7 min | 4.4% | 673 |
| SkyWest Airlines on IAD → MSP | 83.9% | 0.84% | -8 min | 7.3% | 2,626 |
| All IAD → MSP flights | 84.5% | 0.92% | -8 min | 6.9% | 2,924 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
Why OO3996 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO3996 on IAD → MSP. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies OO3996 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
OO3996 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.7 hours on the ground at IAD, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying OO3996 came in 15 or more minutes late on 19% 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 IAD just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 631 of 664 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 |
|---|---|
| OO3996 | 19% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often OO3996’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 June 2024 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves IAD late, does that still matter by the time it reaches MSP?
OO3996 pushes back an average of 7.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at MSP an average of 3.9 minutes late. 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. It spends 19.4 minutes on the taxiways at IAD, 2.9 minutes longer than a typical IAD departure in the same hour.
On arrival at MSP, OO3996 spends 7.7 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 MSP 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 MSP. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 9,935 departures from IAD scheduled in the clock hour OO3996 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at MSP (369,815 flights), not just OO3996’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · June 2024 – July 2026
The hour it leaves IAD
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO3996 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 9,935 departures from IAD are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 170,208 across the whole day.
OO3996 is scheduled out of IAD at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from IAD in that hour arrive on time 89.3% of the time against 81.0% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.3 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from IAD 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 · June 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes OO3996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOI→SEA Boise to Seattle | May 11, 2024 – June 1, 2024 | 5 | — |
| SEA→BOI Seattle to Boise | May 11, 2024 – June 1, 2024 | 5 | — |
| ATW→MSP Appleton to Minneapolis | April 11–21, 2024 | 9 | — |
| MSP→ATW Minneapolis to Appleton | April 11–21, 2024 | 9 | — |
| MSN→MSP Madison to Minneapolis | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 30 | — |
| MSP→MSN Minneapolis to Madison | March 10, 2024 – April 8, 2024 | 30 | — |
| AGS→ATL Augusta to Atlanta | January 2–7, 2024 | 6 | — |
| ATL→AGS Atlanta to Augusta | January 2–7, 2024 | 6 | — |
| DTW→RIC Detroit to Richmond | November 5, 2023 – December 5, 2023 | 30 | — |
| AZO→DTW Kalamazoo to Detroit | October 9, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 27 | — |
| DTW→AZO Detroit to Kalamazoo | October 9, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 27 | — |
| MSP→RST Minneapolis to Rochester | October 3–8, 2023 | 6 | — |
| RST→MSP Rochester to Minneapolis | October 3–8, 2023 | 6 | — |
| MKE→JFK Milwaukee to New York | September 5–15, 2023 | 11 | — |
| IAD→DTW Washington to Detroit | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 66 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO3996 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.
16 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 673 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering June 2024 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 673 records of OO3996 operating IAD → MSP, 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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