Carrier route record
OOORD→CAK
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Akron
- Flights
- 1,479
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 71%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to CAK carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,479 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to CAK runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 124 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,402 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.87%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
63.6%
Every carrier on ORD to CAK, 2,089 flights
These figures cover 1,479 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 CAK
SkyWest flew 1,479 of the 2,089 flights on ORD to CAK, most of the route. Its 64.9% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 63.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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 (this page) | 1,479 | 64.9% | 88 min | 4.87% | D− |
| PSA Airlines | 380 | 54.8% | 128 min | 8.42% | F− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on ORD to CAK
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am63 flights66.1%
- 8am–11am361 flights76.7%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm373 flights64.4%
- 5pm–8pm454 flights54.3%
- 8pm–5am228 flights67.8%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.3% on time, against 76.7% for the 8am–11am 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 454 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to CAK through the year
December is the weak month at 43.9% on time, against 80.8% in October. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 174 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 70.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.7%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to CAK runs when it is late
The 492 late arrivals split 129 under half an hour, 147 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 216 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early297 flights21.2%
- Within 15 min613 flights43.7%
- 15–29 min late129 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late147 flights10.5%
- 1–2 hours late112 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late104 flights7.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,402 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 422 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 44 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 114 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 SkyWest on ORD to CAK
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 January 2026, 19 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 January 2026 | 19 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 March 2026 | 16 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 April 2026 | 14 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 March 2026 | 14 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 August 2026 | 13 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 43,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 43,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 43,340 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 76.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.87%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
15.4% 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.
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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.9% on time across 1,479 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,479 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on ORD to CAK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.87% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,402 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to CAK, every carrier
- SkyWest on CAK to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to CAK69.4%
- PSA Airlines on ORD to CAK54.8%
- SkyWest 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.