Carrier route record

MQORD→SYR

Envoy Air · Chicago to Syracuse

Flights: 686
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 31%
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 SYR lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five 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 686 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 754 at 78.8% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORD to SYR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

78.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 664 completed flights

Avg delay

56 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.77%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.7%

Every carrier on ORD to SYR, 2,189 flights

These figures cover 686 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 SYR

Envoy flew 686 of the 2,189 flights on ORD to SYR, about 31% of it. Its 78.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.8% to American at 50.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 78.8% of the time; United Airlines manages 71.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 405 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ORD to SYR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)	686	78.8%	56 min	2.77%	B
Republic Airways	754	78.8%	77 min	3.05%	B−
United Airlines	405	71.2%	79 min	1.23%	C
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	241	66.8%	84 min	3.73%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	103	50.0%	98 min	0.97%	F+

Republic Airways cancels 3.0% 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.

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 24 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am41 flights92.7%
8am–11am115 flights86.8%
11am–2pm232 flights82.8%
2pm–5pm105 flights68.3%
5pm–8pm57 flights77.4%
8pm–5am136 flights68.8%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.7% of the time, against 68.3% for the afternoon window. That is 24 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 232 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ORD to SYR through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.September best, July worst

July is the worst month at 69.2% on time, 20 points below September, the best at 89.6%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. June was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.2%. 18 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy 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 7,893 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
41%
National Airspace System
22%
Carrier
19%
Extreme weather
19%

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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,893 reported delay minutes.

41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,893 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations run at 2.77%, 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

6.3% 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 607 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 runs 79.1% on time across 686 flights, within half a point 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. 686 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 SYR

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 686 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 78.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 664 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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