Carrier route record
OOORD→OMA
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Omaha
- Flights
- 452
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to OMA draws a D−. Roughly 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 452 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 825 at 75.7% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to OMA runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 136 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 438 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on ORD to OMA, 3,105 flights
These figures cover 452 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.6% 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 OMA
SkyWest flew 452 of the 3,105 flights on ORD to OMA, about 15% of it. Its 63.7% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four 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 choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 75.7% of the time; United Airlines manages 69.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,379 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 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 (this page) | 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 |
Envoy Air cancels 3.5% 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 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 18 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am24 flights—
- 8am–11am218 flights69.9%
- 11am–2pm32 flights51.6%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights57.1%
- 5pm–8pm111 flights56.7%
- 8pm–5am8 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 51.6% on time against 69.9% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 218 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to OMA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025115 flights67.0%
- Jan–Mar 202631 flights48.4%
- Apr–Jun 2026131 flights57.1%
- Jul–Sep 2026151 flights66.2%
Scale runs 40% to 70%. 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 63.7% on time across 452 flights.
SkyWest on ORD to OMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 67.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 48.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 113 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 71.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 50.8%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to OMA runs when it is late
The 159 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 54 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 64 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early72 flights16.4%
- Within 15 min207 flights47.3%
- 15–29 min late41 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late54 flights12.3%
- 1–2 hours late40 flights9.1%
- 2+ hours late24 flights5.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 438 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 109 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 55 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 SkyWest on ORD to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 April 2026, 12 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across April, December, January and November, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | 12 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 December 2025 | 6 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 January 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 November 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 31 December 2025 | 4 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,510 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,942 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 69.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.10%, 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
14.6% 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.
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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.2% on time across 452 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. 452 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 OMA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.10% 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. 438 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to OMA, every carrier
- SkyWest on OMA to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to OMA75.7%
- Republic Airways on ORD to OMA72.9%
- United Airlines on ORD to OMA69.6%
- American Airlines on ORD to OMA53.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- 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.