Carrier route record
OHORD→ORF
PSA Airlines · Chicago to Norfolk
- Flights
- 186
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on ORD to ORF earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 52.4% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 25 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 186 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 447 at 81.4% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 81.4% on time across 447 flights.
Key figures
On time
52.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 164 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
10.75%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.8%
Every carrier on ORD to ORF, 1,957 flights
These figures cover 186 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 28.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on ORD to ORF
PSA flew 186 of the 1,957 flights on ORD to ORF, about 10% of it. Its 52.4% on time is 19 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.4% to PSA at 52.4%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. 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 | 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 Airlines (this page)thin 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 PSA runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 186 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split PSA's ORD to ORF record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 52.4% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
PSA on ORD to ORF through the year
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights41.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights46.2%
- Apr–Jun 202636 flights87.1%
Scale runs 35% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 52.4% on time across 186 flights.
PSA on ORD to ORF did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 87.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 41.8%, a swing of 45 points on roughly 62 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 PSA on ORD to ORF runs when it is late
When PSA on ORD to ORF is late it tends to be very late: 46 of its 78 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 17 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early29 flights17.7%
- Within 15 min57 flights34.8%
- 15–29 min late9 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late23 flights14.0%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights17.7%
- 2+ hours late17 flights10.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 164 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 73 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 9 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 ORF.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on ORD to ORF
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 November 2025, 4 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in February 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 November 2025 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 February 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 February 2026 | 4 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 February 2026 | 4 hours | Carrier |
| 17 December 2025 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,932 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,932 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 6,932 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 10.75%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in nine 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
28.0% 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.
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 74.9% on time across 186 flights, 23 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 23 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 186 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 PSA on ORD to ORF
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 10.75% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 164 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to ORF, every carrier
- PSA on ORF to ORD, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORD to ORF81.4%
- Envoy Air on ORD to ORF79.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to ORF68.2%
- United Airlines on ORD to ORF66.1%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 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.