Carrier route record
MQORD→LIT
Envoy Air · Chicago to Little Rock
- Flights
- 993
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 69%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to LIT sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 993 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to LIT from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 973 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.81%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on ORD to LIT, 1,432 flights
These figures cover 993 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 LIT
Envoy flew 993 of the 1,432 flights on ORD to LIT, most of the route. Its 75.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 100.0% to Republic at 64.3%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 993 | 75.1% | 65 min | 1.81% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines | 421 | 71.4% | 78 min | 5.46% | C− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 15 | 64.3% | 128 min | 6.67% | D− |
Flight by flight
Envoy flight numbers on ORD to LIT
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am231 flights83.3%
- 11am–2pm135 flights85.9%
- 2pm–5pm147 flights70.3%
- 5pm–8pm355 flights70.5%
- 8pm–5am114 flights65.2%
Scale runs 55% 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 85.9% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 65.2%. 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 355 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to LIT through the year
December is the weak month at 62.5% on time, against 87.1% 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. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.4%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to LIT runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to LIT often beats the schedule: 332 of 973 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 242 late arrivals split 87 under half an hour, 68 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 87 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early332 flights34.1%
- Within 15 min399 flights41.0%
- 15–29 min late87 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late68 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late51 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late36 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 973 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
54 of 224 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 72 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 LIT.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to LIT
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 8 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 8 hours 32 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 March 2026 | 6 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 July 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 July 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 April 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
- 9%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 15,713 reported delay minutes.
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.20%.
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 552 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 72.2% on time across 992 flights, within 3 points 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. 993 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 LIT
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 993 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 75.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 973 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to LIT, every carrier
- Envoy on LIT to ORD, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to LIT71.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.