Carrier route record
YXORD→OMA
Republic Airways · Chicago to Omaha
- Flights
- 199
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on ORD to OMA sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 199 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 825 at 75.7% on time.
Envoy Air is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 75.7% on time across 825 flights.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 192 completed flights
Avg delay
63 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 199 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on ORD to OMA
Republic flew 199 of the 3,105 flights on ORD to OMA, about 6% of it. Its 72.9% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 75.7% to American at 53.4%. Two 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; SkyWest Airlines manages 63.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 452 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 Airways (this page)thin 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 |
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 Republic runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against 12 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am76 flights67.6%
- 11am–2pm3 flights—
- 2pm–5pm90 flights79.1%
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am29 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 79.1% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 67.6%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 90 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on ORD to OMA through the year
- Jul–Sep 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202515 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026109 flights68.9%
- Apr–Jun 202633 flights80.6%
- Jul–Sep 202640 flights82.1%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. 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 72.9% on time across 199 flights.
Republic on ORD to OMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 68.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 66 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on ORD to OMA runs when it is late
Republic on ORD to OMA often beats the schedule: 58 of 192 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 52 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early58 flights30.2%
- Within 15 min82 flights42.7%
- 15–29 min late17 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late14 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights8.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 192 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 12 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 Republic on ORD to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 December 2025, 3 hours 46 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 December 2025 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 January 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 February 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 March 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 July 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Republic 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 3,270 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Extreme weather
- 18%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 28% 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 4.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,270 reported delay minutes.
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,270 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 to one.
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
10.9% 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 71.9% on time across 199 flights, within about 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. 199 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 Republic 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 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 192 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to OMA, every carrier
- Republic on OMA to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to OMA75.7%
- United Airlines on ORD to OMA69.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to OMA63.7%
- American Airlines on ORD to OMA53.4%
- Republic Airways 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.