Carrier route record
MQLIT→ORD
Envoy Air · Little Rock to Chicago
- Flights
- 992
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 69%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on LIT 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 992 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Envoy on LIT 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 967 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.6%
Every carrier on LIT to ORD, 1,430 flights
These figures cover 992 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% 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 LIT to ORD
Envoy flew 992 of the 1,430 flights on LIT to ORD, most of the route. Its 72.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 72.2% to Republic at 50.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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) | 992 | 72.2% | 73 min | 1.92% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 423 | 64.1% | 93 min | 5.44% | D− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 15 | 50.0% | 86 min | 20.00% | F− |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on LIT 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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am355 flights78.2%
- 8am–11am70 flights83.8%
- 11am–2pm176 flights67.8%
- 2pm–5pm126 flights73.8%
- 5pm–8pm264 flights62.7%
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.7% on time, against 83.8% for the 8am–11am 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 355 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on LIT to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 56.2% on time, against 88.6% in September. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.1%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on LIT to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on LIT to ORD often beats the schedule: 297 of 967 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 269 late arrivals split 70 under half an hour, 89 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 110 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early297 flights30.7%
- Within 15 min401 flights41.5%
- 15–29 min late70 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late89 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late69 flights7.1%
- 2+ hours late41 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 967 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 223 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 74 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 LIT to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 11 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April 2026 | 11 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 June 2026 | 6 hours 26 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 April 2026 | 6 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 July 2026 | 5 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 20,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 19,624 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.60%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.4% 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 552 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 75.1% on time across 993 flights, within 3 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. 992 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 LIT to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 992 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 72.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 967 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.