Carrier route record
MQCLE→ORD
Envoy Air · Cleveland to Chicago
- Flights
- 878
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on CLE to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four 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 878 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 587 at 76.9% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 76.9% on time across 587 flights.
Key figures
On time
74.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 839 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.33%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on CLE to ORD, 4,895 flights
These figures cover 878 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.7% 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 CLE to ORD
Envoy flew 878 of the 4,895 flights on CLE to ORD, about 18% of it. Its 74.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.9% to SkyWest at 69.2%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 76.9% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 69.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 854 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 587 | 76.9% | 75 min | 6.64% | B− |
| United Airlines | 2,181 | 75.6% | 79 min | 1.47% | B |
| American Airlines | 395 | 75.0% | 109 min | 3.54% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 878 | 74.9% | 78 min | 4.33% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 854 | 69.2% | 97 min | 4.22% | C− |
Republic Airways cancels 6.6% 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.
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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 25 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am154 flights86.6%
- 8am–11am88 flights72.4%
- 11am–2pm140 flights85.6%
- 2pm–5pm234 flights72.4%
- 5pm–8pm90 flights70.4%
- 8pm–5am172 flights61.3%
Scale runs 55% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.3% on time, against 86.6% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 234 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on CLE to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 49.0% on time, against 87.9% in May. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 143 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 80.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.2%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on CLE to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on CLE to ORD often beats the schedule: 290 of 839 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 211 late arrivals split 59 under half an hour, 54 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 98 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early290 flights34.6%
- Within 15 min338 flights40.3%
- 15–29 min late59 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late54 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late57 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late41 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 839 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 188 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 50 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 CLE to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 March 2026, 8 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | 8 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 February 2026 | 7 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 7 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 August 2026 | 6 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 April 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 10%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 16,540 reported delay minutes.
32% 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 5,303 minutes out of 17,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.33%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
11.7% 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 316 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 runs 73.1% on time across 879 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 878 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 CLE to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.33% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 839 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to CLE, the return leg
- Republic Airways on CLE to ORD76.9%
- United Airlines on CLE to ORD75.6%
- American Airlines on CLE to ORD75.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on CLE to ORD69.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.