Carrier route record
OOCAK→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Akron to Chicago
- Flights
- 1,479
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 71%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on CAK to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,479 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on CAK 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 1,402 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.87%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.5%
Every carrier on CAK to ORD, 2,088 flights
These figures cover 1,479 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on CAK to ORD
SkyWest flew 1,479 of the 2,088 flights on CAK to ORD, most of the route. Its 72.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 72.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.2% 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 229 | 75.2% | 104 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,479 | 72.9% | 125 min | 4.87% | C− |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 69.1% | 110 min | 7.89% | C− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on CAK to ORD
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am363 flights84.2%
- 8am–11am406 flights73.0%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm364 flights71.2%
- 5pm–8pm345 flights62.0%
- 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: 62.0% on time, against 84.2% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 406 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on CAK to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 57.3% on time, against 83.6% 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. May was the busiest month here, with 174 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 75.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 69.7%, a spread of 6 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on CAK to ORD runs when it is late
SkyWest on CAK to ORD often beats the schedule: 468 of 1,402 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on CAK to ORD is late it tends to be very late: 218 of its 380 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 130 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early468 flights33.4%
- Within 15 min554 flights39.5%
- 15–29 min late91 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late71 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late88 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late130 flights9.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,402 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 299 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 16 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 97 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 SkyWest on CAK to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 December 2025, 17 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 December 2025 | 17 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 February 2026 | 14 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 July 2026 | 13 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 12 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 April 2026 | 11 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 47,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 22,000 of the 47,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 47,394 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.87%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
15.5% 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 64.9% on time across 1,479 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,479 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on CAK to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.87% 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. 1,402 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CAK to ORD, every carrier
- SkyWest on ORD to CAK, the return leg
- Envoy Air on CAK to ORD75.2%
- PSA Airlines on CAK to ORD69.1%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.