Carrier route record
OHORD→TVC
PSA Airlines · Chicago to Traverse City
- Flights
- 377
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on ORD to TVC draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 377 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 479 at 71.1% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 71.1% on time across 479 flights.
Key figures
On time
67.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
8.22%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
66.8%
Every carrier on ORD to TVC, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 377 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.8% 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
PSA against every carrier on ORD to TVC
PSA flew 377 of the 2,617 flights on ORD to TVC, about 14% of it. Its 67.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 66.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 80.5% to United at 62.8%. One 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 71.1% of the time; United Airlines manages 62.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 457 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 189 | 80.5% | 60 min | 2.12% | B |
| Republic Airways | 479 | 71.1% | 77 min | 4.38% | C− |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 377 | 67.6% | 103 min | 8.22% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,115 | 64.0% | 107 min | 5.29% | D− |
| United Airlines | 457 | 62.8% | 79 min | 2.41% | D |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 5.3% 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.
Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am149 flights74.8%
- 11am–2pm61 flights75.0%
- 2pm–5pm167 flights58.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 75.0% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 58.3%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 167 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on ORD to TVC through the year
- Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025144 flights65.2%
- Jan–Mar 2026137 flights62.9%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights80.0%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 67.6% on time across 377 flights.
PSA on ORD to TVC did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.9%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 126 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.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 74.5% on time and Thursday the weakest at 62.3%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 11,000 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.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,480 reported delay minutes.
61% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 8.22%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve 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. 16.8% 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.
At 224 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 61.7% on time across 377 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 377 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 PSA on ORD to TVC
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 8.22% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 346 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to TVC, every carrier
- PSA on TVC to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to TVC80.5%
- Republic Airways on ORD to TVC71.1%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to TVC64.0%
- United Airlines on ORD to TVC62.8%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.