Carrier route record
MQORD→FAR
Envoy Air · Chicago to Fargo
- Flights
- 1,078
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to FAR lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 1,078 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to FAR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,043 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.5%
Every carrier on ORD to FAR, 2,001 flights
These figures cover 1,078 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% 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 FAR
Envoy flew 1,078 of the 2,001 flights on ORD to FAR, most of the route. Its 76.1% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 76.1% to SkyWest at 61.7%.
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 Air (this page) | 1,078 | 76.1% | 66 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 923 | 61.7% | 79 min | 3.36% | D− |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on ORD to FAR
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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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am347 flights82.5%
- 11am–2pm86 flights80.0%
- 2pm–5pm292 flights78.6%
- 5pm–8pm43 flights60.5%
- 8pm–5am310 flights67.4%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.5% on time, against 82.5% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 347 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to FAR through the year
December is the weak month at 58.1% on time, against 93.8% in September. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 84.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.7%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to FAR runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to FAR often beats the schedule: 274 of 1,043 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 249 late arrivals split 73 under half an hour, 83 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 93 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early274 flights26.3%
- Within 15 min520 flights49.9%
- 15–29 min late73 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late83 flights8.0%
- 1–2 hours late58 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late35 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,043 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
43 of 241 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 51 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to FAR
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 July 2026, 5 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 April 2026 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 February 2026 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 11% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 16,524 reported delay minutes.
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 3.06%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
8.9% 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 557 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 runs 76.1% on time across 1,078 flights, within half 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. 1,078 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 FAR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.06% 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. 1,043 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.