Carrier route record

MQSAV→ORD

Envoy Air · Savannah to Chicago

Flights: 276
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 18%
Carriers: 5

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

Envoy on SAV to ORD lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.4 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's SAV to ORD record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 55 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 267 completed flights

Avg delay

145 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.81%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.6%

Every carrier on SAV to ORD, 1,563 flights

These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on SAV to ORD

Envoy flew 276 of the 1,563 flights on SAV to ORD, about 18% of it. Its 83.1% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three 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.

On-time performance by carrier on SAV to ORD
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 Air (this page)thin sample	276	83.1%	145 min	1.81%	B
American Airlinesthin sample	183	72.8%	100 min	1.09%	C
United Airlines	735	69.2%	83 min	0.95%	C+

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 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–8am45 flights86.7%
8am–11am54 flights90.6%
11am–2pm58 flights87.3%
2pm–5pm76 flights78.4%
5pm–8pm43 flights72.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.6% of the time, against 72.5% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 76 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on SAV to ORD through the year

Jan–Mar 2026170 flights84.0%
Apr–Jun 2026106 flights81.7%

Scale runs 75% 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 83.1% on time across 276 flights.

Split by quarter, Envoy on SAV to ORD logged 170 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 106 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 83.1% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 96.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 75.0%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 60% of the 6,503 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.

Carrier
60%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
Extreme weather
14%
National Airspace System
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,503 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 60%, 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 3,882 of the 6,503 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.81% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.45%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.4 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

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 82.6% on time across 275 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. 276 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 SAV to ORD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 276 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 83.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 267 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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