Carrier route record
MQBDL→ORD
Envoy Air · Hartford to Chicago
- Flights
- 141
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on BDL to ORD lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 141 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 644 at 78.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on BDL to ORD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 138 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.13%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on BDL to ORD, 2,349 flights
These figures cover 141 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on BDL to ORD
Envoy flew 141 of the 2,349 flights on BDL to ORD, about 6% of it. Its 78.3% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.3% to SkyWest at 70.6%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 78.2% of the time; United Airlines manages 71.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 841 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 141 | 78.3% | 60 min | 2.13% | B |
| Republic Airways | 644 | 78.2% | 69 min | 3.88% | B− |
| American Airlines | 461 | 73.2% | 154 min | 3.25% | C− |
| United Airlines | 841 | 71.5% | 78 min | 1.55% | C |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 262 | 70.6% | 71 min | 2.29% | C |
Republic Airways cancels 3.9% 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.
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 17 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm69 flights87.0%
- 2pm–5pm3 flights—
- 5pm–8pm69 flights69.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 87.0% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 69.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 69 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on BDL to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202578 flights85.9%
- Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
- Jan–Mar 20267 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights78.9%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.3% on time across 141 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on BDL to ORD logged 78 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 15 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 7 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 41 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 78.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 1,805 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 62%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
62% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,113 minutes out of 1,805, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,805 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.13% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.
The 783 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.9% on time across 141 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 141 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 BDL to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 141 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 78.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 138 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BDL to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to BDL, the return leg
- Republic Airways on BDL to ORD78.2%
- American Airlines on BDL to ORD73.2%
- United Airlines on BDL to ORD71.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on BDL to ORD70.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.