OO4649

OO4649 arrived on time 92.0% of the time, against 89.9% for all SBA → LAX flights, so this departure is 2.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.1 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 669 operations, October 2024 – July 2026 · If OO4649 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight stays close to typical even on its worst days, a smaller gap than 95% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

A typical arrival is 12 min early, and the worst tenth are only 19 minutes worse than that.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – 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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO4649 on SBA → LAX. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

OO4649 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.3 hours on the ground at SBA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

The aircraft flying OO4649 came in 15 or more minutes late on 14% 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 SBA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 645 of 661 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

OO4649 pushes back an average of 3.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at LAX an average of 2.0 minutes early. The 5.7 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 17.6 minutes on the taxiways at SBA, 1.9 minutes longer than a typical SBA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at LAX, OO4649 spends 12.7 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 1.9 minutes longer than a typical LAX arrival (10.7 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 LAX. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 3,818 departures from SBA scheduled in the clock hour OO4649 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at LAX (595,170 flights), not just OO4649’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · October 2024 – July 2026

OO4649 is scheduled out of SBA at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from SBA in that hour arrive on time 91.6% of the time against 82.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from SBA 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 · October 2024 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO4649 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering October 2024 – July 2026

• OO4796 LAX→SBA Return trip, LAX to SBA, departs 11:00 PM, on time 83.8%
• OO4057 PHX→LAX SkyWest Airlines flight into LAX, PHX to LAX, departs 6:20 AM, on time 94.9%
• OO4119 LAX→PHX SkyWest Airlines flight out of LAX, LAX to PHX, departs 7:55 AM, on time 86.0%