Carrier route record
MQORD→AVL
Envoy Air · Chicago to Asheville
- Flights
- 656
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to AVL lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That rests on 656 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to AVL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 636 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on ORD to AVL, 1,514 flights
These figures cover 656 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to AVL
Envoy flew 656 of the 1,514 flights on ORD to AVL, about 43% of it. Its 80.7% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.7% to PSA at 0.0%. Two 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) | 656 | 80.7% | 54 min | 2.74% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 68 | 70.1% | 72 min | 1.47% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 789 | 70.0% | 69 min | 2.28% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 0.0% | 33 min | 0.00% | F+ |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am318 flights87.6%
- 11am–2pm16 flights—
- 2pm–5pm239 flights73.5%
- 5pm–8pm48 flights84.4%
- 8pm–5am35 flights71.0%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.6% of the time, against 71.0% for the overnight window. That is 17 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 318 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to AVL through the year
December is the weak month at 68.1% on time, against 87.8% in April. 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 89 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 76.9%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to AVL runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to AVL often beats the schedule: 244 of 636 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 123 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 40 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early244 flights38.4%
- Within 15 min269 flights42.3%
- 15–29 min late48 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late35 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late31 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late9 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 636 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 109 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 41 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 AVL.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to AVL
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 July 2026, 5 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 May 2026 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 October 2025 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 6,683 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,683 reported delay minutes.
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,683 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 536 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 72.9% on time across 654 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. 656 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 ORD to AVL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 656 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 80.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 636 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.