Carrier route record
OOORD→AVL
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Asheville
- Flights
- 789
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 52%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to AVL sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 789 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to AVL runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 73 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 771 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.28%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on ORD to AVL, 1,514 flights
These figures cover 789 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
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to AVL
SkyWest flew 789 of the 1,514 flights on ORD to AVL, most of the route. Its 70.0% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three 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 | 656 | 80.7% | 54 min | 2.74% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 68 | 70.1% | 72 min | 1.47% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 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 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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am215 flights82.0%
- 8am–11am64 flights75.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm225 flights73.6%
- 5pm–8pm285 flights56.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.8% on time, against 82.0% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 285 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to AVL through the year
October is the best month on the calendar at 84.6% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. April was the busiest month here, with 115 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 81.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.3%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to AVL runs when it is late
The 231 late arrivals split 68 under half an hour, 83 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 80 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early189 flights24.5%
- Within 15 min351 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late68 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late83 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late36 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 771 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 153 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 92 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 SkyWest on ORD to AVL
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 June 2026, 17 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across June, July, November, August and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2026 | 17 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 July 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 August 2026 | 5 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 February 2026 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest 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 16,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 16,037 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,738 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.28% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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.
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 73.7% on time across 790 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 789 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 ORD to AVL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 789 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 70.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 771 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.