Carrier route record
MQFAR→ORD
Envoy Air · Fargo to Chicago
- Flights
- 1,078
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on FAR to ORD lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,078 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on FAR 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
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,042 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.0%
Every carrier on FAR to ORD, 2,004 flights
These figures cover 1,078 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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 FAR to ORD
Envoy flew 1,078 of the 2,004 flights on FAR to ORD, most of the route. Its 76.1% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 76.1% to SkyWest at 69.4%.
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 Air (this page) | 1,078 | 76.1% | 88 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 926 | 69.4% | 124 min | 3.24% | C− |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on FAR to ORD
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am358 flights84.7%
- 8am–11am6 flights—
- 11am–2pm344 flights71.2%
- 2pm–5pm175 flights75.8%
- 5pm–8pm195 flights68.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.7% of the time, against 68.5% for the evening window. That is 16 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 358 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on FAR to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 64.5% on time, against 88.8% in July. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.3%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on FAR to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on FAR to ORD often beats the schedule: 441 of 1,042 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 249 late arrivals split 67 under half an hour, 74 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 108 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early441 flights42.3%
- Within 15 min352 flights33.8%
- 15–29 min late67 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late74 flights7.1%
- 1–2 hours late56 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late52 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,042 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
36 of 218 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 67 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 FAR to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 January 2026, 26 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across January, July, May, April and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 January 2026 | 26 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 10 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 May 2026 | 8 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 8 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 August 2026 | 6 hours 21 minutes | Extreme weather |
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 22,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,985 reported delay minutes.
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.06%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
10.4% 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 557 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 runs 76.1% on time across 1,078 flights, within half a point 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. 1,078 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 FAR to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.06% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 1,042 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
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.