Carrier route record
MQORD→CID
Envoy Air · Chicago to Cedar Rapids
- Flights
- 964
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 36%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to CID sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 964 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 813 at 64.0% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on ORD to CID runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 54 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 938 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.49%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
67.8%
Every carrier on ORD to CID, 2,715 flights
These figures cover 964 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 CID
Envoy flew 964 of the 2,715 flights on ORD to CID, about 36% of it. Its 72.2% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 67.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 72.4% to American at 60.3%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 354 | 72.4% | 68 min | 4.80% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 964 | 72.2% | 68 min | 2.49% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 813 | 64.0% | 104 min | 5.17% | D− |
| United Airlines | 456 | 63.4% | 95 min | 1.54% | D |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 127 | 60.3% | 75 min | 4.72% | D− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 5.2% 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 18 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–11am156 flights81.7%
- 11am–2pm207 flights79.0%
- 2pm–5pm196 flights71.1%
- 5pm–8pm111 flights70.4%
- 8pm–5am294 flights63.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 63.5% on time, against 81.7% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 294 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to CID through the year
December is the weak month at 51.8% on time, against 87.5% in June. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 147 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 67.8%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 18,000 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Extreme weather
- 17%National Airspace System
- 11%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,630 reported delay minutes.
46% 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 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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.
Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.21%.
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. 10.0% 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 196 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 75.8% on time across 965 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. 964 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 CID
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 964 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 72.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 938 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to CID, every carrier
- Envoy on CID to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to CID72.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CID64.0%
- United Airlines on ORD to CID63.4%
- American Airlines on ORD to CID60.3%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.