Carrier route record

OHCAK→ORD

PSA Airlines · Akron to Chicago

Flights: 380
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.

PSA on CAK 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 380 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so PSA on CAK to ORD runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 85 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

110 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.89%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

71.6%

Every carrier on CAK to ORD, 1,963 flights

These figures cover 380 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.7% 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

PSA against every carrier on CAK to ORD

PSA flew 380 of the 1,963 flights on CAK to ORD, about 19% of it. Its 69.1% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.5% to PSA at 69.1%. One 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CAK to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin sample	109	75.5%	76 min	2.75%	B
SkyWest Airlines	1,474	72.0%	117 min	4.41%	C−
PSA Airlines (this page)	380	69.1%	110 min	7.89%	C−

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am166 flights75.5%
8am–11am50 flights79.5%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm164 flights59.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.6% on time, against 79.5% for the 8am–11am 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 166 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on CAK to ORD through the year

Oct–Dec 2025170 flights66.9%
Jan–Mar 2026139 flights73.4%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights66.7%

Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 69.1% on time across 380 flights.

Quarter by quarter PSA on CAK to ORD held fairly steady: 66.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 73.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 66.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 61.4%. 17 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 12,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,887 reported delay minutes.

44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations run at 7.89%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 54.8% on time across 380 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 380 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 PSA on CAK to ORD

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.89% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 350 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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