Carrier route record
MQCID→ORD
Envoy Air · Cedar Rapids to Chicago
- Flights
- 965
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 36%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CID 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 965 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 457 at 75.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on CID 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
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 939 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.69%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
72.1%
Every carrier on CID to ORD, 2,715 flights
These figures cover 965 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% 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 CID to ORD
Envoy flew 965 of the 2,715 flights on CID to ORD, about 36% of it. Its 75.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 86.7% to SkyWest at 65.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 75.4% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 65.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 812 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 126 | 86.7% | 58 min | 4.76% | A− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 965 | 75.8% | 70 min | 2.69% | B |
| United Airlines | 457 | 75.4% | 78 min | 2.19% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 354 | 66.9% | 79 min | 6.21% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 812 | 65.6% | 115 min | 4.56% | C− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 4.6% 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 29 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am345 flights89.3%
- 8am–11am62 flights76.7%
- 11am–2pm216 flights77.4%
- 2pm–5pm181 flights60.7%
- 5pm–8pm129 flights64.5%
- 8pm–5am32 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 89.3% of the time, against 60.7% for the afternoon window. That is 29 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 345 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on CID to ORD through the year
July is the worst month at 58.7% on time, 27 points below May, the best at 85.5%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 146 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 81.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.4%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
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 16,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% 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 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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. The split is drawn from 15,964 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 89.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.69%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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. 9.7% 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 196 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 72.2% on time across 964 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 965 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 CID to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 965 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 75.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 939 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CID to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to CID, the return leg
- American Airlines on CID to ORD86.7%
- United Airlines on CID to ORD75.4%
- Republic Airways on CID to ORD66.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on CID to ORD65.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.