Carrier route record
OHORD→CAK
PSA Airlines · Chicago to Akron
- Flights
- 380
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on ORD to CAK earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 54.8% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 23 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average about 2.1 hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 380 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so PSA on ORD to CAK runs 23 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 225 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
54.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
128 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.42%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
63.6%
Every carrier on ORD to CAK, 2,089 flights
These figures cover 380 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 24.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on ORD to CAK
PSA flew 380 of the 2,089 flights on ORD to CAK, about 18% of it. Its 54.8% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 63.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 69.4% to PSA at 54.8%. 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 Airthin sample | 230 | 69.4% | 70 min | 3.48% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,479 | 64.9% | 88 min | 4.87% | D− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 380 | 54.8% | 128 min | 8.42% | F− |
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Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm46 flights51.2%
- 2pm–5pm125 flights61.3%
- 5pm–8pm164 flights51.7%
- 8pm–5am45 flights50.0%
Scale runs 40% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 61.3% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 164 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on ORD to CAK through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025170 flights56.2%
- Jan–Mar 2026139 flights52.5%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights55.4%
Scale runs 45% to 60%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 54.8% on time across 380 flights.
Quarter by quarter PSA on ORD to CAK held fairly steady: 56.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 52.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 55.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 60.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 36.6%, a spread of 24 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on ORD to CAK runs when it is late
When PSA on ORD to CAK is late it tends to be very late: 84 of its 157 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 50 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early44 flights12.7%
- Within 15 min146 flights42.1%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late43 flights12.4%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights9.8%
- 2+ hours late50 flights14.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 140 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 8 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 25 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 CAK.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on ORD to CAK
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 December 2025, 31 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across December, April and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | 31 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 April 2026 | 18 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 April 2026 | 18 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 16 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 January 2026 | 6 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
58% 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 7 to one. The split is drawn from 20,020 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 8.42%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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
24.2% 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 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.1% on time across 380 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 380 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 PSA on ORD to CAK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.42% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; 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. 347 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to CAK, every carrier
- PSA on CAK to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to CAK69.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CAK64.9%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- 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.