Carrier route record

MQPVD→ORD

Envoy Air · Providence to Chicago

Flights: 328
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on PVD to ORD lands a B−, 4 points 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 328 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 432 at 78.9% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's PVD to ORD record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 41 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

81.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.49%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

74.5%

Every carrier on PVD to ORD, 1,727 flights

These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 PVD to ORD

Envoy flew 328 of the 1,727 flights on PVD to ORD, about 19% of it. Its 81.4% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.4% to Republic at 65.5%. 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 78.9% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 69.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 754 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PVD to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	328	81.4%	100 min	5.49%	B−
American Airlines	432	78.9%	116 min	3.47%	B−
United Airlinesthin sample	119	75.7%	42 min	2.52%	B
SkyWest Airlines	754	69.8%	97 min	3.71%	C−
Republic Airwaysthin sample	94	65.5%	61 min	6.38%	C−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.7% 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.

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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 328 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm196 flights83.3%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm132 flights78.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 83.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 5 points.

Across the year

Envoy on PVD to ORD through the year

Oct–Dec 202524 flights—
Jan–Mar 202699 flights75.8%
Apr–Jun 2026118 flights89.3%
Jul–Sep 202687 flights81.2%

Scale runs 65% 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 81.4% on time across 328 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 Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.8%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 109 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 86.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.5%, a spread of 10 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late Envoy on PVD to ORD runs when it is late

Envoy on PVD to ORD often beats the schedule: 147 of 307 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 57 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 28 an hour or more.

15+ min early147 flights47.9%
Within 15 min103 flights33.6%
15–29 min late11 flights3.6%
30–59 min late18 flights5.9%
1–2 hours late14 flights4.6%
2+ hours late14 flights4.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

9 of 55 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Envoy on PVD to ORD

The latest arrival of the period was on 11 June 2026, 17 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Envoy on PVD to ORD in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
11 June 2026	17 hours 26 minutes	National Airspace System
17 June 2026	4 hours 47 minutes	National Airspace System
2 April 2026	4 hours 19 minutes	National Airspace System
30 December 2025	4 hours 6 minutes	National Airspace System
29 December 2025	3 hours 52 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

National Airspace System accounts for 48% of the 5,688 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

National Airspace System
48%
Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
14%
Extreme weather
2%

36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,688 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 5,688 reported delay minutes.

48% 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 2,709 minutes out of 5,688, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations run at 5.49%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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

9.1% 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 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.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.3% on time across 328 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. 328 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 5.49% 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. 307 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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