Carrier route record

MQORD→CAK

Envoy Air · Chicago to Akron

Flights: 110
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on ORD to CAK sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 110 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 1,474 at 65.5% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to CAK from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 106 completed flights

Avg delay

65 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.64%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

64.1%

Every carrier on ORD to CAK, 1,964 flights

These figures cover 110 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ORD to CAK

Envoy flew 110 of the 1,964 flights on ORD to CAK, about 6% of it. Its 75.5% on time is 11 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 64.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.5% to PSA at 54.8%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 65.5% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 54.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 380 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ORD to CAK
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	110	75.5%	65 min	3.64%	B−
SkyWest Airlines	1,474	65.5%	92 min	4.68%	C−
PSA Airlines	380	54.8%	128 min	8.42%	F−

PSA Airlines cancels 8.4% 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.

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 11 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm55 flights81.5%
5pm–8pm37 flights64.7%
8pm–5am18 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.7% on time, against 81.5% for the 2pm–5pm 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 55 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ORD to CAK through the year

Apr–Jun 2026110 flights75.5%

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 75.5% on time across 110 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on ORD to CAK logged 110 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 1,686 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
64%
Carrier
23%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
2%

64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 1,686 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 1,686 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.64%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 344 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 75.5% on time across 109 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. 110 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 CAK

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.64% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 106 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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