Carrier route record
MQOMA→ORD
Envoy Air · Omaha to Chicago
- Flights
- 825
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on OMA to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 825 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,381 at 73.6% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on OMA 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
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 792 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.88%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.2%
Every carrier on OMA to ORD, 3,108 flights
These figures cover 825 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 OMA to ORD
Envoy flew 825 of the 3,108 flights on OMA to ORD, about 27% of it. Its 75.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 80.3% to SkyWest at 71.2%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 80.3% | 82 min | 1.65% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 825 | 75.6% | 75 min | 3.88% | B− |
| United Airlines | 1,381 | 73.6% | 95 min | 2.17% | C |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 199 | 71.9% | 84 min | 3.52% | C− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 8 | 71.4% | 55 min | 12.50% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 452 | 71.2% | 93 min | 4.42% | C− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 4.4% 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 20 points, against 2 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am117 flights86.2%
- 8am–11am47 flights79.1%
- 11am–2pm178 flights79.4%
- 2pm–5pm245 flights75.4%
- 5pm–8pm236 flights66.2%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
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 86.2% of the time, against 66.2% for the evening window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 245 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on OMA to ORD through the year
August is the worst month at 54.9% on time, 34 points below February, the best at 88.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 68.5%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on OMA to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on OMA to ORD often beats the schedule: 297 of 792 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 193 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 64 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 82 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early297 flights37.5%
- Within 15 min302 flights38.1%
- 15–29 min late47 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late64 flights8.1%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights6.9%
- 2+ hours late27 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 792 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
35 of 191 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 37 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on OMA to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 August 2026, 15 hours 55 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 a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2026 | 15 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 February 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 4 hours 41 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 14,369 reported delay minutes.
33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 4,706 minutes out of 14,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.88%, 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
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.
At 416 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 runs 75.7% on time across 825 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. 825 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 OMA to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.88% 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. 792 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OMA to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to OMA, the return leg
- American Airlines on OMA to ORD80.3%
- United Airlines on OMA to ORD73.6%
- Republic Airways on OMA to ORD71.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on OMA to ORD71.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) 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.