Carrier route record
OOORD→FAR
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Fargo
- Flights
- 923
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to FAR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.4% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 923 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to FAR runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 156 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 887 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.36%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.5%
Every carrier on ORD to FAR, 2,001 flights
These figures cover 923 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to FAR
SkyWest flew 923 of the 2,001 flights on ORD to FAR, about 46% of it. Its 61.7% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last 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 | 1,078 | 76.1% | 66 min | 3.06% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 923 | 61.7% | 79 min | 3.36% | D− |
Flight by flight
SkyWest flight numbers on ORD to FAR
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am362 flights67.5%
- 11am–2pm148 flights64.0%
- 2pm–5pm201 flights63.2%
- 5pm–8pm131 flights52.8%
- 8pm–5am81 flights41.0%
Scale runs 35% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 41.0% on time, against 67.5% 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 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to FAR through the year
December is the weak month at 38.1% on time, against 74.0% in October. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 108 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 64.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 58.6%, a spread of 6 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to FAR runs when it is late
The 340 late arrivals split 97 under half an hour, 108 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 135 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early162 flights18.3%
- Within 15 min385 flights43.4%
- 15–29 min late97 flights10.9%
- 30–59 min late108 flights12.2%
- 1–2 hours late77 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late58 flights6.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 887 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 268 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 19 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 91 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 FAR.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on ORD to FAR
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 December 2025, 16 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 December 2025 | 16 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 February 2026 | 13 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 10 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 December 2025 | 7 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 7 hours 26 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 42% of the 27,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 27,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 26,717 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 67.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.36%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
15.2% 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.
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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.4% on time across 926 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 923 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 SkyWest on ORD to FAR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.36% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over 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. 887 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.