Carrier route record
MQORD→EWR
Envoy Air · Chicago to Newark
- Flights
- 533
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- 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 EWR lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 533 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 4,415 at 72.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 501 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.8%
Every carrier on ORD to EWR, 6,126 flights
These figures cover 533 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to EWR
Envoy flew 533 of the 6,126 flights on ORD to EWR, about 9% of it. Its 78.0% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.0% to Spirit at 45.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 72.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 926 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 533 | 78.0% | 60 min | 5.82% | B− |
| United Airlines | 4,415 | 72.0% | 89 min | 2.85% | C |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 102 | 60.2% | 83 min | 7.84% | D− |
| American Airlines | 926 | 59.0% | 87 min | 4.97% | D− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 150 | 45.6% | 79 min | 15.33% | F− |
American Airlines cancels 5.0% 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 25 points, against 13 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am132 flights90.2%
- 8am–11am350 flights75.2%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm50 flights65.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 65.2% for the afternoon window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 350 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to EWR through the year
December is the weak month at 70.5% on time, against 95.0% 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. January was the busiest month here, with 75 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.8% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to EWR runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to EWR often beats the schedule: 174 of 501 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 110 late arrivals split 35 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights34.7%
- Within 15 min217 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late35 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late36 flights7.2%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late14 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 501 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 26 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 EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 April 2026, 4 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 December 2025 | 3 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 January 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 May 2026 | 2 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Envoy 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 6,552 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 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 6,552 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 6,552 reported delay minutes.
39% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,582 minutes out of 6,552, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 5.82%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
7.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 719 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.2% on time across 533 flights, 6 points below 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 533 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 EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 501 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to EWR, every carrier
- Envoy on EWR to ORD, the return leg
- United Airlines on ORD to EWR72.0%
- Republic Airways on ORD to EWR60.2%
- American Airlines on ORD to EWR59.0%
- Spirit Airlines on ORD to EWR45.6%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.