Carrier route record

MQORD→SRQ

Envoy Air · Chicago to Sarasota

Flights: 121
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 12%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on ORD to SRQ lands a B+, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 121 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ORD to SRQ record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 59 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights

Avg delay

61 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.4%

Every carrier on ORD to SRQ, 998 flights

These figures cover 121 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ORD to SRQ

Envoy flew 121 of the 998 flights on ORD to SRQ, about 12% of it. Its 83.5% on time is 6 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.5% to SkyWest at 50.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ORD to SRQ
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	121	83.5%	61 min	0.00%	B+
United Airlines	617	79.4%	70 min	0.65%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	216	70.7%	75 min	3.70%	C−
Republic Airwaysthin sample	42	66.7%	91 min	0.00%	C+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	2	50.0%	198 min	0.00%	F+

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 10 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–8am—
8am–11am78 flights84.6%
11am–2pm31 flights74.2%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm12 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 74.2% on time against 84.6% 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 78 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ORD to SRQ through the year

Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
Oct–Dec 202553 flights77.4%
Jan–Mar 202657 flights87.7%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 95%. 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 83.5% on time across 121 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on ORD to SRQ logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 53 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 57 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 49% of the 1,223 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

National Airspace System
49%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
Extreme weather
16%
Carrier
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,223 reported delay minutes.

49% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 605 minutes out of 1,223, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 1,050 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 72.5% on time across 121 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 121 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 SRQ

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 121 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 83.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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