Carrier route record
MQPVD→ORD
Envoy Air · Providence to Chicago
- Flights
- 274
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on PVD to ORD lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 274 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 431 at 79.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on PVD 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
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.84%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.6%
Every carrier on PVD to ORD, 1,654 flights
These figures cover 274 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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
Envoy against every carrier on PVD to ORD
Envoy flew 274 of the 1,654 flights on PVD to ORD, about 17% of it. Its 77.0% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 73.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.2% to SkyWest at 69.4%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 79.2% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 69.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 768 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 431 | 79.2% | 108 min | 3.02% | B− |
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 274 | 77.0% | 98 min | 5.84% | B− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 119 | 75.7% | 42 min | 2.52% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 62 | 69.5% | 50 min | 4.84% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 768 | 69.4% | 102 min | 3.52% | C− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.5% 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 14 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm143 flights83.3%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm130 flights69.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 83.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 69.5%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 143 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on PVD to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202533 flights43.3%
- Oct–Dec 202524 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202699 flights75.8%
- Apr–Jun 2026118 flights89.3%
Scale runs 35% to 95%. 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 77.0% on time across 274 flights.
Envoy on PVD to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 43.3%, a swing of 46 points on roughly 91 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.0%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 5,796 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.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,929 minutes out of 5,796, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,796 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.84%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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. 10.9% 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.
The 849 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.0% on time across 274 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 274 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 PVD to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 257 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to PVD, the return leg
- American Airlines on PVD to ORD79.2%
- United Airlines on PVD to ORD75.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on PVD to ORD69.4%
- Envoy Air 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.