Carrier route record
MQORD→CLE
Envoy Air · Chicago to Cleveland
- Flights
- 879
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 18%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to CLE carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.1% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 879 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 583 at 76.2% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 76.2% on time across 583 flights.
Key figures
On time
73.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 840 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.8%
Every carrier on ORD to CLE, 4,893 flights
These figures cover 879 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to CLE
Envoy flew 879 of the 4,893 flights on ORD to CLE, about 18% of it. Its 73.1% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.2% to American at 59.2%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 76.2% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 396 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 583 | 76.2% | 69 min | 5.32% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 879 | 73.1% | 62 min | 4.10% | C− |
| United Airlines | 2,182 | 71.8% | 78 min | 1.28% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 853 | 67.3% | 87 min | 3.40% | C− |
| American Airlines | 396 | 59.2% | 98 min | 3.54% | D− |
Republic Airways cancels 5.3% 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.
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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 29 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am55 flights84.9%
- 8am–11am140 flights90.6%
- 11am–2pm235 flights74.8%
- 2pm–5pm90 flights70.1%
- 5pm–8pm209 flights64.6%
- 8pm–5am150 flights61.7%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.7% on time, against 90.6% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 235 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to CLE through the year
December is the weak month at 55.3% on time, against 82.5% in May. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 143 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 65.1%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to CLE runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to CLE often beats the schedule: 239 of 840 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 226 late arrivals split 63 under half an hour, 73 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 90 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early239 flights28.5%
- Within 15 min375 flights44.6%
- 15–29 min late63 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late73 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late69 flights8.2%
- 2+ hours late21 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 840 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
29 of 206 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 49 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 CLE.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 4 hours 28 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 March 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 April 2026 | 3 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 May 2026 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 13,906 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 90.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.10%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
10.7% 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 316 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 runs 74.9% on time across 878 flights, within 2 points 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. 879 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 CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.10% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; 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. 840 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to CLE, every carrier
- Envoy on CLE to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to CLE76.2%
- United Airlines on ORD to CLE71.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CLE67.3%
- American Airlines on ORD to CLE59.2%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) 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.