Carrier route record
UAPVD→ORD
United Airlines · Providence to Chicago
- Flights
- 119
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on PVD to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 40 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 119 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 432 at 78.9% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United 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
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on PVD to ORD, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 119 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 3 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on PVD to ORD
United flew 119 of the 1,727 flights on PVD to ORD, about 7% of it. Its 75.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three 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.
| 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 Airlines (this page)thin 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 United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am51 flights84.0%
- 8am–11am37 flights70.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm31 flights67.7%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.0% of the time, against 67.7% for the afternoon window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 51 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on PVD to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202547 flights76.6%
- Jan–Mar 202642 flights69.2%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. 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 75.7% on time across 119 flights.
Split by quarter, United on PVD to ORD logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 47 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 42 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 75.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on PVD to ORD runs when it is late
The 28 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 3 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early22 flights19.1%
- Within 15 min65 flights56.5%
- 15–29 min late13 flights11.3%
- 30–59 min late12 flights10.4%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.9%
- 2+ hours late2 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 115 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 10 of 115 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for United on PVD to ORD
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 January 2026, 3 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across January, December, September and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 January 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 September 2025 | 1 hour 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 October 2025 | 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 October 2025 | 49 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 1,184 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%National Airspace System
- 44%Carrier
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
50% 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 597 minutes out of 1,184, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,184 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 519 of the 1,184 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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 runs 72.9% on time across 119 flights, within 3 points 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. 119 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 United on PVD to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 119 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 75.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 115 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PVD to ORD, every carrier
- United on ORD to PVD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on PVD to ORD81.4%
- American Airlines on PVD to ORD78.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on PVD to ORD69.8%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.