Carrier performance at one airport
MQ→ORD
Envoy Air at Chicago O'Hare International
- Departures
- 57,966
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #1 of 12
Envoy Air at Chicago lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 57,966 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 57,966 at 76.1% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, Envoy Air runs 5 points ahead of the 70.7% weighted average across all carriers at ORD. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
56,141 completed departures
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.93%
At ORD, this carrier only
Rank here
#1
Of 12 carriers clearing the floor at ORD
These figures cover 58,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Against the competition
Every carrier at ORD, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 76.1% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 60.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,832 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 57,966 | 76.1% | 65 min | 2.93% | B |
| Republic Airways | 33,415 | 76.1% | 74 min | 3.81% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,293 | 73.1% | 99 min | 6.34% | C− |
| United Airlines | 102,132 | 73.0% | 73 min | 1.30% | C |
| Delta Air Lines | 10,687 | 72.0% | 91 min | 3.13% | C− |
| Southwest Airlines | 3,139 | 71.3% | 70 min | 1.40% | C |
| Frontier Airlines | 4,179 | 67.7% | 109 min | 3.76% | C− |
| Alaska Airlines | 3,346 | 67.4% | 70 min | 1.82% | C |
| American Airlines | 61,506 | 66.4% | 82 min | 2.56% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 78,955 | 65.8% | 88 min | 4.06% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,558 | 63.4% | 83 min | 5.99% | D− |
| PSA Airlines | 2,832 | 60.2% | 127 min | 7.06% | D− |
PSA Airlines cancels 7.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where Envoy Air flies from ORD
Envoy Air operates 25 routes out of ORD with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD to XNA · Bentonville | 1,599 | 75.7% | 67 min | 1.56% | B |
| ORD to HPN · White Plains | 1,561 | 76.3% | 68 min | 3.78% | B− |
| ORD to CMH · Columbus | 1,409 | 74.3% | 71 min | 2.20% | C |
| ORD to GRB · Green Bay | 1,389 | 75.7% | 66 min | 3.74% | B− |
| ORD to CVG · Cincinnati | 1,357 | 72.4% | 78 min | 2.28% | C |
| ORD to ATW · Appleton | 1,185 | 74.0% | 65 min | 3.63% | C− |
| ORD to COU · Columbia | 1,151 | 73.9% | 69 min | 2.69% | C |
| ORD to SGF · Springfield | 1,116 | 77.7% | 65 min | 2.60% | B |
| ORD to MSN · Madison | 1,111 | 77.8% | 68 min | 3.51% | B− |
| ORD to FAR · Fargo | 1,078 | 76.1% | 66 min | 3.06% | B− |
| ORD to CMI · Champaign | 1,075 | 72.1% | 68 min | 3.81% | C− |
| ORD to MSP · Minneapolis | 1,065 | 75.9% | 65 min | 2.82% | B |
| ORD to LSE · La Crosse | 1,061 | 75.1% | 60 min | 4.71% | B− |
| ORD to CWA · Mosinee | 1,013 | 75.6% | 63 min | 4.15% | B− |
| ORD to PIA · Peoria | 1,001 | 73.7% | 57 min | 4.70% | C− |
| ORD to LIT · Little Rock | 993 | 75.1% | 65 min | 1.81% | B |
| ORD to GRR · Grand Rapids | 967 | 75.2% | 64 min | 3.93% | B− |
| ORD to GSO · Greensboro | 947 | 78.0% | 71 min | 2.43% | B |
| ORD to DTW · Detroit | 946 | 78.2% | 52 min | 3.38% | B− |
| ORD to BNA · Nashville | 921 | 76.1% | 60 min | 2.71% | B |
| ORD to TUL · Tulsa | 887 | 74.7% | 63 min | 3.38% | C− |
| ORD to CLE · Cleveland | 879 | 73.1% | 62 min | 4.10% | C− |
| ORD to BMI · Bloomington | 879 | 77.1% | 69 min | 3.87% | B− |
| ORD to GSP · Greer | 865 | 78.3% | 72 min | 3.58% | B− |
| ORD to STL · St. Louis | 843 | 74.6% | 53 min | 3.08% | C− |
Flight by flight
Envoy Air flight numbers from ORD
14 Envoy Air flight numbers leaving ORD flew their main route often enough to have a record of their own. Grouped by destination.
- MQ 4321to ALO 22:3468.7%
- MQ 4140to AVP 20:5072.5%
- MQ 3447to CMH 20:5963.8%
- MQ 3694to CMI 20:2764.3%
- MQ 3745to COU 18:5066.9%
- MQ 3690to CVG 19:2970.8%
- MQ 3377to FAR 21:0067.0%
- MQ 3648to GSO 18:5974.4%
- MQ 3499to HPN 18:3873.5%
- MQ 4200to HPN 12:5075.1%
- MQ 3561to LIT 19:5968.2%
- MQ 4025to MQT 18:4663.8%
- MQ 3626to SGF 17:1869.2%
- MQ 4105to XNA 18:5369.4%
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am2,454 flights87.1%
- 8am–11am14,825 flights82.0%
- 11am–2pm9,102 flights79.9%
- 2pm–5pm10,170 flights74.9%
- 5pm–8pm9,589 flights69.3%
- 8pm–5am11,826 flights69.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.1% of the time, against 69.3% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 14,825 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
December is the weak month at 61.9% on time, against 85.5% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 5,859 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 868,209 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
57,966 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.93% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 56,141 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
Envoy Air at ORD
How often is Envoy Air at ORD delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.9% of the 57,966 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on Envoy Air at ORD?
Envoy Air leads at 76.1% on time across 57,966 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 60.2%, a gap of 16 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on Envoy Air at ORD?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 87.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 69.3%, 18 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on Envoy Air at ORD?
December is the weakest month at 61.9% on time, compared with 85.5% in September. Across the year that is 24 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.