OO4754

OO4754 arrived on time 88.7% of the time, against 77.7% for all DTW → ORD flights, so this departure is 11.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.9 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 666 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If OO4754 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 runs unusually far ahead of the DTW → ORD route as a whole, better than 92% of 11,788 comparable flight numbers.

88.7% on time for this specific departure, against 77.7% for every DTW → ORD flight.

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.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO4754 on DTW → ORD. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

OO4754 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.6 hours on the ground at DTW, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, OO4754 pushed back an average of 17 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DTW just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 636 of 653 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 September 2023 – July 2026

OO4754 pushes back an average of 9.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at ORD an average of 2.3 minutes early. The 11.7 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 20.4 minutes on the taxiways at DTW, 1.7 minutes longer than a typical DTW departure in the same hour.

On arrival at ORD, OO4754 spends 11.6 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 6.2 minutes shorter than a typical ORD arrival (17.8 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 ORD. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 13,777 departures from DTW scheduled in the clock hour OO4754 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at ORD (952,666 flights), not just OO4754’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

OO4754 is scheduled out of DTW at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from DTW in that hour arrive on time 87.3% of the time against 79.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DTW 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO4754 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. OO4754 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.

• UA426 DTW→ORD United Airlines on the same route, departs 9:00 AM, on time 67.3%
• DL2358 DTW→ORD Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 3:50 PM, on time 77.4%
• DL1665 DTW→ORD Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 8:00 PM, on time 71.7%