Carrier route record
OOPVD→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Providence to Chicago
- Flights
- 768
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on PVD to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 768 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on PVD to ORD runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 82 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 741 completed flights
Avg delay
102 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.52%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.6%
Every carrier on PVD to ORD, 1,654 flights
These figures cover 768 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.4% 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 PVD to ORD
SkyWest flew 768 of the 1,654 flights on PVD to ORD, about 46% of it. Its 69.4% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.2% to SkyWest at 69.4%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 431 | 79.2% | 108 min | 3.02% | B− |
| Envoy Airthin 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 (this page) | 768 | 69.4% | 102 min | 3.52% | C− |
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 44 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am213 flights89.9%
- 8am–11am64 flights79.4%
- 11am–2pm76 flights66.7%
- 2pm–5pm225 flights67.6%
- 5pm–8pm190 flights45.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 35% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 45.6% on time, against 89.9% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 225 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on PVD to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 50.8% on time, against 87.1% 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. November was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 76.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.8%. 16 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 43% of the 23,000 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.
- 43%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 18%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, 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 9,974 of the 23,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 23,162 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.52%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 13.4% 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.
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 65.7% on time across 768 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 768 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 SkyWest on PVD to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.52% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 741 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to ORD, every carrier
- SkyWest on ORD to PVD, the return leg
- American Airlines on PVD to ORD79.2%
- Envoy Air on PVD to ORD77.0%
- United Airlines on PVD to ORD75.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.