Carrier route record
MQORD→ICT
Envoy Air · Chicago to Wichita
- Flights
- 466
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- 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 ICT draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 466 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on ORD to ICT runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 109 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 450 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.22%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
65.7%
Every carrier on ORD to ICT, 2,221 flights
These figures cover 466 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.8% 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 ICT
Envoy flew 466 of the 2,221 flights on ORD to ICT, about 21% of it. Its 66.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 65.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.0% to PSA at 56.0%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 21 | 80.0% | 63 min | 4.76% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,369 | 66.7% | 78 min | 2.48% | C |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 466 | 66.7% | 70 min | 3.22% | C− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 311 | 60.8% | 89 min | 1.29% | D |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 54 | 56.0% | 79 min | 7.41% | D− |
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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am62 flights67.7%
- 11am–2pm54 flights86.8%
- 2pm–5pm77 flights59.2%
- 5pm–8pm98 flights64.9%
- 8pm–5am175 flights64.2%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 86.8% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 59.2%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 175 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to ICT through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights47.9%
- Jan–Mar 2026207 flights74.6%
- Apr–Jun 2026181 flights66.1%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 66.7% on time across 466 flights.
Envoy on ORD to ICT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 47.9%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 155 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 81.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.0%. 26 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 44% of the 10,000 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,448 reported delay minutes.
44% 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 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.
Cancellations run at 3.22%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.8% 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.
The 588 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.9% on time across 464 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. 466 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 ICT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.22% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 450 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to ICT, every carrier
- Envoy on ICT to ORD, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to ICT66.7%
- United Airlines on ORD to ICT60.8%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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.