Carrier route record
MQCAK→ORD
Envoy Air · Akron to Chicago
- Flights
- 229
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CAK to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 229 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 1,479 at 72.9% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on CAK 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
75.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 222 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.5%
Every carrier on CAK to ORD, 2,088 flights
These figures cover 229 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 CAK to ORD
Envoy flew 229 of the 2,088 flights on CAK to ORD, about 11% of it. Its 75.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.2% to PSA at 69.1%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 229 | 75.2% | 104 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,479 | 72.9% | 125 min | 4.87% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 69.1% | 110 min | 7.89% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 7.9% 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.
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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 21 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am116 flights85.3%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm5 flights—
- 5pm–8pm108 flights64.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.4% on time, against 85.3% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 116 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on CAK to ORD through the year
- Apr–Jun 2026109 flights75.5%
- Jul–Sep 2026120 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 80%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 75.2% on time across 229 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on CAK to ORD logged 109 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 120 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 83.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.6%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on CAK to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on CAK to ORD often beats the schedule: 118 of 222 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 55 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early118 flights53.2%
- Within 15 min49 flights22.1%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late18 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late17 flights7.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 222 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 51 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 13 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 CAK to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 August 2026, 17 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, June and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2026 | 17 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 June 2026 | 7 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 June 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 August 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,699 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,322 of the 5,699 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,699 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 85.3% 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
10.8% 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.
At 344 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.4% on time across 230 flights, 6 points below 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 229 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 CAK to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.06% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 222 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CAK to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to CAK, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on CAK to ORD72.9%
- PSA Airlines on CAK to ORD69.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.