Flight profile · SkyWest Airlines
OO4796
Los Angeles (LAX) to Santa Barbara (SBA) · scheduled 11:00 PM – 11:44 PM
How OO4796 performs
1,103 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
OO4796 arrived on time 83.8% of the time, against 85.7% for all LAX → SBA flights, so this departure is 1.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against SkyWest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.9 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,103 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If OO4796 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where OO4796 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OO4796 | 83.8% | 1.45% | -6 min | 4.8% | 1,103 |
| SkyWest Airlines on LAX → SBA | 85.7% | 1.17% | -8 min | 4.7% | 2,142 |
| All LAX → SBA flights | 85.7% | 1.17% | -8 min | 4.7% | 2,142 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why OO4796 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for OO4796 on LAX → SBA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies OO4796 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, OO4796 pushed back an average of 44 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LAX just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 1,053 of 1,090 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| OO4796 | 13% | 38% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 68% | 9% |
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 OO4796’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often OO4796 left 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s.
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 July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches SBA?
OO4796 pushes back an average of 18.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at SBA an average of 15.0 minutes late. The 3.8 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 21.5 minutes on the taxiways at LAX, 2.0 minutes longer than a typical LAX departure in the same hour.
On arrival at SBA, OO4796 spends 5.2 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 SBA 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 SBA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 22,331 departures from LAX scheduled in the clock hour OO4796 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SBA (24,554 flights), not just OO4796’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LAX
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. OO4796 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 22,331 departures from LAX are scheduled in the 11 PM–12 AM hour over the period, against 595,153 across the whole day.
OO4796 is scheduled out of LAX at 11:00 PM, in the 11 PM–12 AM bank. Departures from LAX in that hour arrive on time 80.8% of the time against 81.4% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour OO4796 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 · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does OO4796 run worse on particular days?
Monday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 12.6 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes OO4796 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RDU→ORD Raleigh–Durham to Chicago | May 24, 2026 | 1 | — |
| FAT→LAX Fresno to Los Angeles | March 30, 2026 – April 27, 2026 | 5 | — |
| SAN→SFO San Diego to San Francisco | February 17, 2026 – March 3, 2026 | 3 | — |
| SFO→ASE San Francisco to Aspen | July 4, 2025 | 1 | — |
| IAH→CLT Houston to Charlotte | February 17, 2024 – March 2, 2024 | 3 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route OO4796 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.
26 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 1,103 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,103 records of OO4796 operating LAX → SBA, 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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