Carrier route record
OOORD→PVD
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Providence
- Flights
- 768
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to PVD draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 768 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on ORD to PVD runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 119 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 744 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.73%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
68.7%
Every carrier on ORD to PVD, 1,654 flights
These figures cover 768 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to PVD
SkyWest flew 768 of the 1,654 flights on ORD to PVD, about 46% of it. Its 65.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 68.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.0% to American at 61.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 274 | 84.0% | 64 min | 4.38% | B− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 62 | 81.4% | 59 min | 4.84% | B− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 119 | 72.9% | 54 min | 0.84% | C+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 768 | 65.7% | 70 min | 2.73% | C |
| American Airlines | 431 | 61.5% | 89 min | 2.78% | D |
Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 39 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am32 flights87.5%
- 8am–11am73 flights76.1%
- 11am–2pm312 flights70.7%
- 2pm–5pm75 flights48.6%
- 5pm–8pm276 flights59.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 87.5% of the time, against 48.6% for the afternoon window. That is 39 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 312 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to PVD through the year
December is the weak month at 50.0% on time, against 77.4% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. November was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 75.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.0%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest 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 18,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 20%Extreme weather
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,766 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 6,613 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.73%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.4% on time across 768 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 768 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 SkyWest on ORD to PVD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 768 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 65.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 744 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to PVD, every carrier
- SkyWest on PVD to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to PVD84.0%
- United Airlines on ORD to PVD72.9%
- American Airlines on ORD to PVD61.5%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.