Carrier route record
MQGRR→ORD
Envoy Air · Grand Rapids to Chicago
- Flights
- 967
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 24%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on GRR to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.7% 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 967 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 480 at 74.0% on time.
American Airlines is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 74.0% on time across 480 flights.
Key figures
On time
70.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 930 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.72%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.1%
Every carrier on GRR to ORD, 4,079 flights
These figures cover 967 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% 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 GRR to ORD
Envoy flew 967 of the 4,079 flights on GRR to ORD, about 24% of it. Its 70.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 69.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 74.0% to PSA at 0.0%. One 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 74.0% of the time; United Airlines manages 63.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,085 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 480 | 74.0% | 138 min | 3.75% | C− |
| Republic Airways | 666 | 72.5% | 84 min | 3.45% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 879 | 70.4% | 111 min | 3.75% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 967 | 70.2% | 72 min | 3.72% | C− |
| United Airlines | 1,085 | 63.0% | 78 min | 1.11% | D |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 0.0% | 690 min | 0.00% | F+ |
American Airlines cancels 3.8% 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 23 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am160 flights83.2%
- 8am–11am125 flights73.5%
- 11am–2pm43 flights61.9%
- 2pm–5pm333 flights73.1%
- 5pm–8pm306 flights60.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.1% on time, against 83.2% 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 333 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on GRR to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 54.4% on time, against 83.9% 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. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 64.3%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on GRR to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on GRR to ORD often beats the schedule: 273 of 930 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 277 late arrivals split 87 under half an hour, 79 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 111 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early273 flights29.4%
- Within 15 min380 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late87 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late79 flights8.5%
- 1–2 hours late70 flights7.5%
- 2+ hours late41 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 930 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 250 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 68 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 GRR to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 7 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as extreme weather.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 7 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 April 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 April 2026 | 6 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 10 December 2025 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 August 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 20,002 reported delay minutes.
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.72%, 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
11.9% 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 137 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 75.2% on time across 967 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 967 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 GRR to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.72% 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. 930 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- GRR to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to GRR, the return leg
- American Airlines on GRR to ORD74.0%
- Republic Airways on GRR to ORD72.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on GRR to ORD70.4%
- United Airlines on GRR to ORD63.0%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.