Carrier route record
OOFAR→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Chicago
- Flights
- 926
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FAR to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.2% 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 926 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on FAR to ORD runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 79 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 890 completed flights
Avg delay
124 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.24%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.0%
Every carrier on FAR to ORD, 2,004 flights
These figures cover 926 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.6% 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 FAR to ORD
SkyWest flew 926 of the 2,004 flights on FAR to ORD, about 46% of it. Its 69.4% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last 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 | 1,078 | 76.1% | 88 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 926 | 69.4% | 124 min | 3.24% | C− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on FAR 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 10 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am187 flights66.9%
- 8am–11am127 flights65.0%
- 11am–2pm285 flights73.5%
- 2pm–5pm178 flights73.7%
- 5pm–8pm149 flights63.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 63.3% on time, against 73.7% 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 285 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on FAR to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 51.1% on time, against 87.5% in October. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 108 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 61.5%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on FAR to ORD runs when it is late
SkyWest on FAR to ORD often beats the schedule: 265 of 890 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on FAR to ORD is late it tends to be very late: 148 of its 272 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 83 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early265 flights29.8%
- Within 15 min353 flights39.7%
- 15–29 min late71 flights8.0%
- 30–59 min late53 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late65 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late83 flights9.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 890 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 230 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. In the other direction, 76 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 FAR to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 April 2026, 21 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in April 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2026 | 21 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 20 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 April 2026 | 20 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 18 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 July 2026 | 13 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 34,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 15,000 of the 34,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 33,790 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.24%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
16.6% 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 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 61.7% on time across 923 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 926 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 SkyWest on FAR to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.24% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 890 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.