Carrier route record
UAORD→PVD
United Airlines · Chicago to Providence
- Flights
- 119
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on ORD to PVD sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 119 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 754 at 66.1% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so United on ORD to PVD runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 118 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.84%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.3%
Every carrier on ORD to PVD, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 119 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on ORD to PVD
United flew 119 of the 1,727 flights on ORD to PVD, about 7% of it. Its 72.9% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three 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 Airthin sample | 328 | 86.3% | 65 min | 3.96% | A− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 94 | 75.3% | 66 min | 5.32% | B− |
| United Airlines (this page)thin 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 United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 33 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm32 flights96.9%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm87 flights64.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.0% on time, against 96.9% for the 11am–2pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 87 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on ORD to PVD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202548 flights81.2%
- Jan–Mar 202641 flights62.5%
Scale runs 55% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 72.9% on time across 119 flights.
United on ORD to PVD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.2% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.5%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 40 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 United on ORD to PVD runs when it is late
Most of the lateness is short. 16 of the 32 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early17 flights14.4%
- Within 15 min69 flights58.5%
- 15–29 min late16 flights13.6%
- 30–59 min late7 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights3.4%
- 2+ hours late5 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 118 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 10 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 United on ORD to PVD
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 2 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 January 2026 | 2 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 October 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 January 2026 | 2 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 2 hours 1 minute | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 47% of the 1,726 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Carrier
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 810 of the 1,726 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,726 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.84%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% 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 roughly 55 minutes, 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 runs 75.7% on time across 119 flights, within 3 points 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. 119 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 United on ORD to PVD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 119 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 72.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 118 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to PVD, every carrier
- United on PVD to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to PVD86.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to PVD66.1%
- American Airlines on ORD to PVD59.6%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.