Carrier route record
MQSRQ→ORD
Envoy Air · Sarasota to Chicago
- Flights
- 121
- 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 Envoy Air.
Envoy on SRQ 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 121 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Envoy on SRQ to ORD runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
72.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 120 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
68.5%
Every carrier on SRQ to ORD, 999 flights
These figures cover 121 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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
Envoy against every carrier on SRQ to ORD
Envoy flew 121 of the 999 flights on SRQ to ORD, about 12% of it. Its 72.5% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 68.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 72.5% to SkyWest at 0.0%. 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 Air (this page)thin sample | 121 | 72.5% | 70 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| United Airlines | 617 | 71.3% | 84 min | 1.62% | C |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 217 | 63.1% | 73 min | 3.69% | D− |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 42 | 47.6% | 81 min | 0.00% | F+ |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 0.0% | 109 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Departure window
When Envoy 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 121 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Envoy's SRQ to ORD record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 72.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Envoy on SRQ to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights69.8%
- Jan–Mar 202657 flights73.2%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
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 72.5% on time across 121 flights.
Split by quarter, Envoy on SRQ to ORD logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 53 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 57 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 6 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 72.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 2,303 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.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
46% 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 2,303 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 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 2,303 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 832 minutes out of 2,303, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
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. 10.8% 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 1,050 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 83.5% on time across 121 flights, 11 points above 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 121 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 SRQ to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 121 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 72.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 120 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SRQ to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to SRQ, the return leg
- United Airlines on SRQ to ORD71.3%
- American Airlines on SRQ to ORD63.1%
- Envoy Air 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.