Carrier route record
MQORD→ORF
Envoy Air · Chicago to Norfolk
- Flights
- 443
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- 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 ORF lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 443 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 447 at 81.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to ORF from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 431 completed flights
Avg delay
61 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.26%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.8%
Every carrier on ORD to ORF, 1,957 flights
These figures cover 443 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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 ORF
Envoy flew 443 of the 1,957 flights on ORD to ORF, about 23% of it. Its 79.8% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.4% to PSA at 52.4%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 81.4% of the time; United Airlines manages 66.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 590 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 447 | 81.4% | 75 min | 1.12% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 443 | 79.8% | 61 min | 2.26% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 280 | 68.2% | 52 min | 2.14% | C |
| United Airlines | 590 | 66.1% | 70 min | 1.53% | C |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 11 | 54.5% | 61 min | 0.00% | F+ |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 186 | 52.4% | 89 min | 10.75% | F− |
The spread between Republic and United is 15 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 15 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 15 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am44 flights95.5%
- 8am–11am137 flights78.5%
- 11am–2pm17 flights—
- 2pm–5pm202 flights78.4%
- 5pm–8pm41 flights74.4%
- 8pm–5am2 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.5% of the time, against 74.4% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 202 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to ORF through the year
- Jul–Sep 20253 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026101 flights81.8%
- Apr–Jun 2026155 flights85.3%
- Jul–Sep 2026116 flights72.3%
Scale runs 65% 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 79.8% on time across 443 flights.
Envoy on ORD to ORF did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 85.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 72.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 111 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 94.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 62.9%, a spread of 32 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to ORF runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to ORF often beats the schedule: 174 of 431 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 87 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 37 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early174 flights40.4%
- Within 15 min170 flights39.4%
- 15–29 min late24 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late26 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late11 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 431 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 94 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to ORF
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 3 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Five of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 August 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 31 August 2026 | 2 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 August 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 5,315 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,315 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 5,315 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 95.5% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.26% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.45%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.6% 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 717 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.6% on time across 443 flights, 5 points below 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 443 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 ORF
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 443 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 79.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 431 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to ORF, every carrier
- Envoy on ORF to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to ORF81.4%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to ORF68.2%
- United Airlines on ORD to ORF66.1%
- PSA Airlines on ORD to ORF52.4%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- 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.