Carrier route record
MQORF→ORD
Envoy Air · Norfolk to Chicago
- Flights
- 443
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 6
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on ORF to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 443 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 448 at 80.7% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on ORF to ORD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 429 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.48%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.7%
Every carrier on ORF to ORD, 1,959 flights
These figures cover 443 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Envoy against every carrier on ORF to ORD
Envoy flew 443 of the 1,959 flights on ORF to ORD, about 23% of it. Its 74.6% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of six carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.7% to American at 40.0%. Three 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 80.7% of the time; United Airlines manages 74.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 592 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 448 | 80.7% | 64 min | 1.56% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 279 | 80.7% | 75 min | 1.43% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 186 | 74.9% | 81 min | 7.53% | C− |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 443 | 74.6% | 74 min | 2.48% | C |
| United Airlines | 592 | 74.5% | 72 min | 1.52% | C |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 11 | 40.0% | 79 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Republic leads United by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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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 29 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am43 flights90.7%
- 8am–11am44 flights88.4%
- 11am–2pm87 flights77.4%
- 2pm–5pm67 flights78.8%
- 5pm–8pm158 flights61.6%
- 8pm–5am44 flights78.6%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.6% on time, against 90.7% for the 5am–8am 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 158 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on ORF to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 20254 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202568 flights76.1%
- Jan–Mar 2026101 flights69.7%
- Apr–Jun 2026155 flights79.9%
- Jul–Sep 2026115 flights70.9%
Scale runs 60% 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 74.6% on time across 443 flights.
Envoy on ORF to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 69.7%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 111 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, Saturday is the strongest day at 93.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 67.2%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on ORF to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on ORF to ORD often beats the schedule: 166 of 429 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 109 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 45 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early166 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min154 flights35.9%
- 15–29 min late24 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late40 flights9.3%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late16 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 429 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
12 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 22 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 ORD.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on ORF to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 July 2026, 12 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across July, February, March, August and May, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | 12 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 31 March 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 August 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 May 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 8,042 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,042 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 8,042 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.68%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 717 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.8% on time across 443 flights, 5 points above 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 5 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 443 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 ORF to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 443 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 74.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 429 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORF to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to ORF, the return leg
- Republic Airways on ORF to ORD80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORF to ORD80.7%
- PSA Airlines on ORF to ORD74.9%
- United Airlines on ORF to ORD74.5%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.