Carrier route record
OOPVD→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Providence to Chicago
- Flights
- 754
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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: 3.7% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% 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 754 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so SkyWest on PVD to ORD runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 75 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 726 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on PVD to ORD, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 754 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on PVD to ORD
SkyWest flew 754 of the 1,727 flights on PVD to ORD, about 44% of it. Its 69.8% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.4% to Republic at 65.5%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin 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 (this page) | 754 | 69.8% | 97 min | 3.71% | C− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 94 | 65.5% | 61 min | 6.38% | C− |
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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 38 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am213 flights87.9%
- 8am–11am64 flights79.4%
- 11am–2pm76 flights66.7%
- 2pm–5pm185 flights69.1%
- 5pm–8pm216 flights50.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 50.2% on time, against 87.9% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 216 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 76.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 57.6%, a spread of 18 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on PVD to ORD runs when it is late
The 219 late arrivals split 66 under half an hour, 57 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 96 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early181 flights24.9%
- Within 15 min326 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late66 flights9.1%
- 30–59 min late57 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late49 flights6.7%
- 2+ hours late47 flights6.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 726 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 169 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 15 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 65 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 SkyWest on PVD to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 October 2025, 24 hours 42 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 October 2025 | 24 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 May 2026 | 18 hours 57 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 October 2025 | 17 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 14 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 10 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 32%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 21,249 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,109 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.71%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
13.2% 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 66.1% on time across 754 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. 754 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 3.71% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 726 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
- Envoy Air on PVD to ORD81.4%
- American Airlines on PVD to ORD78.9%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.