Carrier route record
MQORD→CLE
Envoy Air · Chicago to Cleveland
- Flights
- 814
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- 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 CLE carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.2% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten 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 814 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 540 at 74.5% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the four carriers covered here at 74.5% on time across 540 flights.
Key figures
On time
72.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 777 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.18%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.1%
Every carrier on ORD to CLE, 4,899 flights
These figures cover 814 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% 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 CLE
Envoy flew 814 of the 4,899 flights on ORD to CLE, about 17% of it. Its 72.7% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 74.5% to American at 56.4%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 74.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 56.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 422 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 540 | 74.5% | 70 min | 5.56% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 814 | 72.7% | 60 min | 4.18% | C− |
| United Airlines | 2,175 | 72.3% | 72 min | 1.29% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 948 | 66.2% | 86 min | 3.48% | C− |
| American Airlines | 422 | 56.4% | 100 min | 4.98% | D− |
Republic Airways cancels 5.6% 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 32 points, against 18 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am55 flights84.9%
- 8am–11am113 flights91.1%
- 11am–2pm234 flights76.1%
- 2pm–5pm95 flights70.7%
- 5pm–8pm194 flights58.8%
- 8pm–5am123 flights65.7%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.8% on time, against 91.1% 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 234 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 83.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 65.5%. 18 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 47% of the 13,000 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
47% 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 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 12,654 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 91.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.18%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.3% 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 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 73.7% on time across 814 flights, within about a point 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. 814 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 4.18% 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. 777 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 CLE74.5%
- United Airlines on ORD to CLE72.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CLE66.2%
- American Airlines on ORD to CLE56.4%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.