Carrier route record
MQEWR→ORD
Envoy Air · Newark to Chicago
- Flights
- 533
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on EWR 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, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 533 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 924 at 76.8% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Envoy on EWR to ORD runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 500 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.19%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.7%
Every carrier on EWR to ORD, 6,123 flights
These figures cover 533 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 EWR to ORD
Envoy flew 533 of the 6,123 flights on EWR to ORD, about 9% of it. Its 72.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 76.8% to Spirit at 51.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 76.8% of the time; United Airlines manages 70.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 4,415 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 924 | 76.8% | 116 min | 4.76% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 533 | 72.2% | 84 min | 6.19% | C− |
| United Airlines | 4,415 | 70.3% | 80 min | 2.83% | C |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 102 | 52.8% | 82 min | 11.76% | F− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 149 | 51.6% | 102 min | 16.78% | F− |
American Airlines cancels 4.8% 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 15 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am90 flights73.3%
- 11am–2pm201 flights72.8%
- 2pm–5pm191 flights74.3%
- 5pm–8pm51 flights59.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.6% on time, against 74.3% for the 2pm–5pm 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 201 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on EWR to ORD through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 94.9% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 75 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 77.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 65.7%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on EWR to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on EWR to ORD often beats the schedule: 168 of 500 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 139 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early168 flights33.6%
- Within 15 min193 flights38.6%
- 15–29 min late40 flights8.0%
- 30–59 min late41 flights8.2%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late24 flights4.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 500 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 123 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 35 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 EWR to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 18 hours 9 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, March, December and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 18 hours 9 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 March 2026 | 17 hours 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 December 2025 | 7 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 January 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 October 2025 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
- 8%Carrier
- 0%Security
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 11,692 reported delay minutes.
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 6.19%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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
11.6% 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.
The 719 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.0% on time across 533 flights, 6 points above 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. 533 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 EWR to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.19% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 500 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to EWR, the return leg
- American Airlines on EWR to ORD76.8%
- United Airlines on EWR to ORD70.3%
- Republic Airways on EWR to ORD52.8%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to ORD51.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.