Carrier route record
MQORD→OMA
Envoy Air · Chicago to Omaha
- Flights
- 825
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 27%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to OMA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 825 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,379 at 69.6% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to OMA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 795 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on ORD to OMA, 3,105 flights
These figures cover 825 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 OMA
Envoy flew 825 of the 3,105 flights on ORD to OMA, about 27% of it. Its 75.7% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.7% to American at 53.4%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 6 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page) | 825 | 75.7% | 56 min | 3.52% | B− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 199 | 72.9% | 63 min | 3.52% | C− |
| United Airlines | 1,379 | 69.6% | 66 min | 1.52% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 452 | 63.7% | 75 min | 3.10% | D− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 8 | 57.1% | 60 min | 12.50% | D− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 242 | 53.4% | 76 min | 1.65% | F |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.1% 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 14 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am47 flights81.4%
- 8am–11am177 flights80.7%
- 11am–2pm245 flights78.0%
- 2pm–5pm69 flights67.7%
- 5pm–8pm170 flights72.0%
- 8pm–5am117 flights70.6%
Scale runs 60% to 85%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 81.4% of the time, against 67.7% for the afternoon window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 245 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to OMA through the year
August is the worst month at 60.8% on time, 26 points below May, the best at 87.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 68.9%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to OMA runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to OMA often beats the schedule: 249 of 795 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 193 late arrivals split 64 under half an hour, 68 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 61 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early249 flights31.3%
- Within 15 min353 flights44.4%
- 15–29 min late64 flights8.1%
- 30–59 min late68 flights8.6%
- 1–2 hours late43 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late18 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 795 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
34 of 178 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 49 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 OMA.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 February 2026, 4 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 March 2026 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 April 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 January 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 10,842 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.52%, 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
7.7% 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.
At 416 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 75.6% on time across 825 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. 825 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 OMA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.52% 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. 795 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to OMA, every carrier
- Envoy on OMA to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to OMA72.9%
- United Airlines on ORD to OMA69.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to OMA63.7%
- American Airlines on ORD to OMA53.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) 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.