Carrier route record
MQORD→PNS
Envoy Air · Chicago to Pensacola
- Flights
- 288
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 38%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to PNS lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 288 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to PNS from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 279 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.78%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.8%
Every carrier on ORD to PNS, 756 flights
These figures cover 288 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% 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 PNS
Envoy flew 288 of the 756 flights on ORD to PNS, about 38% of it. Its 78.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 90.0% to United at 77.8%. Three of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 21 | 90.0% | 101 min | 4.76% | A− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 84 | 82.9% | 68 min | 2.38% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 288 | 78.1% | 59 min | 2.78% | B |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 363 | 77.8% | 77 min | 0.55% | B+ |
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Departure window
When Envoy 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 288 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am156 flights76.8%
- 11am–2pm132 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 79.7% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to PNS through the year
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights74.0%
- Jan–Mar 2026101 flights78.6%
- Apr–Jun 202673 flights76.4%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights83.1%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.1% on time across 288 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on ORD to PNS held fairly steady: 74.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 78.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 76.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 83.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 82.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 75.0%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to PNS runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to PNS often beats the schedule: 115 of 279 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 61 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early115 flights41.2%
- Within 15 min103 flights36.9%
- 15–29 min late20 flights7.2%
- 30–59 min late18 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 66 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 22 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 17 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 PNS.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to PNS
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 March 2026, 5 hours 11 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2026 | 5 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 April 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 August 2026 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 August 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 March 2026 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy 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 3,575 reported delay minutes.
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 20%Extreme weather
- 17%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,575 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.78%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
8.2% 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 794 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 runs 78.3% on time across 288 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. 288 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 PNS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 288 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 78.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 279 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.