Carrier route record
MQORD→PVD
Envoy Air · Chicago to Providence
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORD to PVD earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 328 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 754 at 66.1% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ORD to PVD record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 314 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.96%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on ORD to PVD, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORD to PVD
Envoy flew 328 of the 1,727 flights on ORD to PVD, about 19% of it. Its 86.3% on time is 17 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.3% to American at 59.6%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 66.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 432 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 328 | 86.3% | 65 min | 3.96% | A− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 94 | 75.3% | 66 min | 5.32% | B− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 119 | 72.9% | 54 min | 0.84% | C+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 754 | 66.1% | 70 min | 3.32% | C− |
| American Airlines | 432 | 59.6% | 88 min | 3.24% | D− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.3% 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 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 11 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am196 flights90.6%
- 11am–2pm122 flights79.6%
- 2pm–5pm10 flights—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 79.6% on time against 90.6% 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 196 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORD to PVD through the year
- Oct–Dec 202524 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202699 flights83.5%
- Apr–Jun 2026118 flights93.0%
- Jul–Sep 202687 flights86.9%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. 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 86.3% on time across 328 flights.
Quarter by quarter Envoy on ORD to PVD held fairly steady: 83.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 93.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 86.9% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 92.0% on time and Friday the weakest at 79.2%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORD to PVD runs when it is late
Envoy on ORD to PVD often beats the schedule: 140 of 314 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 43 late arrivals split 14 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early140 flights44.6%
- Within 15 min131 flights41.7%
- 15–29 min late14 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late10 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 314 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORD to PVD
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 December 2025, 4 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across December, April, July and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 December 2025 | 4 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 April 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 2 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 February 2026 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 2 hours 4 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 2,804 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,804 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 2,804 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 90.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
6.1% 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 849 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 81.4% on time across 328 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. 328 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 PVD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 314 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to PVD, every carrier
- Envoy on PVD to ORD, the return leg
- United Airlines on ORD to PVD72.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to PVD66.1%
- American Airlines on ORD to PVD59.6%
- Envoy Air 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.