Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO4098
Los Angeles (LAX) to Albuquerque (ABQ) · scheduled 7:59 PM – 10:55 PM
How OO4098 performs
775 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 775 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If OO4098 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where OO4098 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO4098 | 87.0% | 0.00% | -8 min | 4.4% | 775 |
| SkyWest Airlines on LAX → ABQ | 88.0% | 0.11% | -10 min | 3.5% | 5,543 |
| All LAX → ABQ flights | 86.3% | 0.13% | -8 min | 3.6% | 6,992 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why OO4098 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO4098 on LAX → ABQ. 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 OO4098 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying OO4098 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 LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 761 of 775 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 |
|---|---|
| OO4098 | 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 OO4098’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 LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches ABQ?
On arrival at ABQ, OO4098 spends 7.8 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 1.7 minutes longer than a typical ABQ arrival (6.0 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 ABQ. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 30,854 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour OO4098 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ABQ (76,020 flights), not just OO4098’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO4098 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 30,854 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 595,153 across the whole day.
OO4098 is scheduled out of LAX at 7:59 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 78.6% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour OO4098 leaves in is an ordinary one for LAX and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from LAX 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 OO4098 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTW→MSN Detroit to Madison | June 8, 2025 – November 8, 2025 | 152 | 82.9% |
| MSN→DTW Madison to Detroit | June 8, 2025 – October 5, 2025 | 113 | 89.4% |
| AUS→MAF Austin to Midland | August 26, 2024 – September 7, 2024 | 10 | — |
| ORD→JFK Chicago to New York | November 5, 2023 – December 15, 2023 | 41 | — |
| ATL→LFT Atlanta to Lafayette | November 4, 2023 | 1 | — |
| CLE→MSP Cleveland to Minneapolis | September 16–30, 2023 | 3 | — |
| DTW→CMH Detroit to Columbus | September 9, 2023 | 1 | — |
| RAP→MSP Rapid City to Minneapolis | July 1, 2023 – September 4, 2023 | 65 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO4098 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.
21 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 775 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO4108 | SkyWest Airlines | 88.5% | 8 min early | 758 |
| OO4098 this flight | SkyWest Airlines | 87.0% | 8 min early | 775 |
| OO4091 | SkyWest Airlines | 86.1% | 7 min early | 798 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. OO4098 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 775 records of OO4098 operating LAX → ABQ, 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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