Carrier route record
OHORD→CAK
PSA Airlines · Chicago to Akron
- Flights
- 380
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. 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 77.6%, so PSA on ORD to CAK runs 23 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 228 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 1.81%
Whole route
64.1%
Every carrier on ORD to CAK, 1,964 flights
These figures cover 380 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 24.2% 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
PSA against every carrier on ORD to CAK
PSA flew 380 of the 1,964 flights on ORD to CAK, about 19% of it. Its 54.8% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 64.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.5% 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 | 110 | 75.5% | 65 min | 3.64% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,474 | 65.5% | 92 min | 4.68% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 380 | 54.8% | 128 min | 8.42% | F− |
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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 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%. 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 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%. 24 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 20,000 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.
- 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. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 20,020 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 8.42%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 24.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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 CAK75.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CAK65.5%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.