Carrier route record
MQPNS→ORD
Envoy Air · Pensacola to Chicago
- Flights
- 288
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 38%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on PNS to ORD lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 288 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Envoy on PNS 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
78.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 277 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.78%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.5%
Every carrier on PNS to ORD, 756 flights
These figures cover 288 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 PNS to ORD
Envoy flew 288 of the 756 flights on PNS to ORD, about 38% of it. Its 78.3% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 94.7% to United at 74.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 21 | 94.7% | 438 min | 4.76% | A− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 288 | 78.3% | 89 min | 2.78% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 84 | 76.9% | 117 min | 7.14% | B− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 363 | 74.0% | 98 min | 1.10% | C |
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Departure window
When Envoy runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 288 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm156 flights79.3%
- 2pm–5pm132 flights77.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 79.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.
Across the year
Envoy on PNS to ORD through the year
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 2026101 flights82.5%
- Apr–Jun 202673 flights80.0%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights66.7%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 78.3% on time across 288 flights.
Envoy on PNS to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 66.7%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 72 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 71.4%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Envoy on PNS to ORD runs when it is late
Envoy on PNS to ORD often beats the schedule: 130 of 277 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When Envoy on PNS to ORD is late it tends to be very late: 35 of its 60 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 11 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early130 flights46.9%
- Within 15 min87 flights31.4%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late15 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 277 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 69 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Envoy on PNS to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 April 2026, 6 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2026 | 6 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 July 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 March 2026 | 4 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 4 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 April 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 5,319 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Extreme weather
- 13%National Airspace System
- 6%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,319 reported delay minutes.
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,319 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.78%, against 1.89% 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
12.6% 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 794 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 runs 78.1% on time across 288 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. 288 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 PNS to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 288 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 78.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 277 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.