Carrier route record
MQAVL→ORD
Envoy Air · Asheville to Chicago
- Flights
- 654
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on AVL to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 654 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Envoy on AVL to ORD runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 631 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on AVL to ORD, 1,513 flights
These figures cover 654 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on AVL to ORD
Envoy flew 654 of the 1,513 flights on AVL to ORD, about 43% of it. Its 72.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to Republic at 71.9%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 790 | 73.7% | 85 min | 2.66% | C |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 654 | 72.9% | 68 min | 3.06% | C− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 68 | 71.9% | 84 min | 2.94% | C |
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Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am76 flights88.2%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm318 flights80.6%
- 2pm–5pm16 flights—
- 5pm–8pm228 flights58.9%
- 8pm–5am15 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.9% on time, against 88.2% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 318 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on AVL to ORD through the year
August is the worst month at 54.0% on time, 28 points below May, the best at 82.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 87 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 77.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.9%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on AVL to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on AVL to ORD often beats the schedule: 218 of 631 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 171 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 46 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 75 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early218 flights34.5%
- Within 15 min242 flights38.4%
- 15–29 min late50 flights7.9%
- 30–59 min late46 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late51 flights8.1%
- 2+ hours late24 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 631 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 160 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 38 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on AVL to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 April 2026, 9 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2026 | 9 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 6 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 September 2025 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 April 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 11,607 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.06%, 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.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 536 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.7% on time across 656 flights, 8 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 654 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking Envoy on AVL to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.06% 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. 631 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.