Carrier route record
AASAV→ORD
American Airlines · Savannah to Chicago
- Flights
- 183
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on SAV to ORD sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 183 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on SAV to ORD runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 48 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 180 completed flights
Avg delay
100 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.09%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.6%
Every carrier on SAV to ORD, 1,563 flights
These figures cover 183 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% 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
American against every carrier on SAV to ORD
American flew 183 of the 1,563 flights on SAV to ORD, about 12% of it. Its 72.8% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.7% to United at 69.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 202 | 84.7% | 63 min | 2.97% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 167 | 83.4% | 59 min | 2.40% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 276 | 83.1% | 145 min | 1.81% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 183 | 72.8% | 100 min | 1.09% | C |
| United Airlines | 735 | 69.2% | 83 min | 0.95% | C+ |
Departure window
When American 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 183 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's SAV to ORD record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 72.8% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on SAV to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 202597 flights71.3%
- Oct–Dec 202534 flights85.3%
- Jan–Mar 202610 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202642 flights71.4%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 72.8% on time across 183 flights.
American on SAV to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 71.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 61 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.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 75% of the 4,884 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.
- 75%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 5%Carrier
75% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,884 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,884 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.09% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
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. 10.6% 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 773 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 runs 72.6% on time across 182 flights, within half a point 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. 183 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 American on SAV to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 183 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 72.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 180 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SAV to ORD, every carrier
- American on ORD to SAV, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on SAV to ORD84.7%
- Republic Airways on SAV to ORD83.4%
- Envoy Air on SAV to ORD83.1%
- United Airlines on SAV to ORD69.2%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.