Carrier route record
OOORD→TVC
SkyWest Airlines · Chicago to Traverse City
- Flights
- 1,115
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on ORD to TVC carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,115 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
64.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,056 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.29%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
66.8%
Every carrier on ORD to TVC, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 1,115 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.4% 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
SkyWest against every carrier on ORD to TVC
SkyWest flew 1,115 of the 2,617 flights on ORD to TVC, about 43% of it. Its 64.0% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 66.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four 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 | 377 | 67.6% | 103 min | 8.22% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,115 | 64.0% | 107 min | 5.29% | D− |
| United Airlines | 457 | 62.8% | 79 min | 2.41% | D |
PSA Airlines cancels 8.2% 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 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 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–8am—
- 8am–11am227 flights77.0%
- 11am–2pm259 flights71.1%
- 2pm–5pm284 flights59.2%
- 5pm–8pm201 flights53.6%
- 8pm–5am144 flights52.9%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 52.9% on time, against 77.0% for the 8am–11am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 284 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on ORD to TVC through the year
December is the weak month at 27.1% on time, against 79.4% in May. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 146 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 52.9%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 47% of the 41,000 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.
- 47%Carrier
- 24%Extreme weather
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 40,721 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 47%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 19,000 of the 41,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.29%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 18.4% 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 62.3% on time across 1,116 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,115 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on ORD to TVC
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.29% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,056 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to TVC, every carrier
- SkyWest on TVC to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to TVC80.5%
- Republic Airways on ORD to TVC71.1%
- PSA Airlines on ORD to TVC67.6%
- United Airlines on ORD to TVC62.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.