Carrier route record
OOORD→PVD
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Providence
- Flights
- 754
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to PVD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 754 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on ORD to PVD runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 112 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 726 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.32%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on ORD to PVD, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 754 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to PVD
SkyWest flew 754 of the 1,727 flights on ORD to PVD, about 44% of it. Its 66.1% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.3% to American at 59.6%. 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 | 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 (this page) | 754 | 66.1% | 70 min | 3.32% | C− |
| American Airlines | 432 | 59.6% | 88 min | 3.24% | D− |
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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.
- 5am–8am32 flights87.5%
- 8am–11am112 flights78.9%
- 11am–2pm258 flights69.2%
- 2pm–5pm75 flights48.6%
- 5pm–8pm277 flights60.0%
- 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 277 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 77.6% in July. 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 76.0% on time and Monday the weakest at 61.1%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on ORD to PVD runs when it is late
The 246 late arrivals split 61 under half an hour, 94 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 91 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early157 flights21.6%
- Within 15 min323 flights44.5%
- 15–29 min late61 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late94 flights12.9%
- 1–2 hours late62 flights8.5%
- 2+ hours late29 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 726 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 193 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 21 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 74 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 PVD.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on ORD to PVD
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 15 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 15 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 December 2025 | 8 hours 42 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 December 2025 | 7 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 6 hours 54 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 January 2026 | 6 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
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 17,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Carrier
- 26%National Airspace System
- 19%Extreme weather
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 17,297 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,364 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.32%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
12.5% 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 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 69.8% on time across 754 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. 754 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.32% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 726 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 PVD86.3%
- United Airlines on ORD to PVD72.9%
- American Airlines on ORD to PVD59.6%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.