Carrier route record
MQSYR→ORD
Envoy Air · Syracuse to Chicago
- Flights
- 686
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 31%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on SYR to ORD lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 686 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 405 at 75.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on SYR 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
79.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 665 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.62%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.0%
Every carrier on SYR to ORD, 2,187 flights
These figures cover 686 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 SYR to ORD
Envoy flew 686 of the 2,187 flights on SYR to ORD, about 31% of it. Its 79.1% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 79.2% to SkyWest at 59.1%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 103 | 79.2% | 103 min | 1.94% | B |
| Envoy Air (this page) | 686 | 79.1% | 82 min | 2.62% | B |
| United Airlines | 405 | 75.3% | 60 min | 1.73% | B |
| Republic Airways | 752 | 72.7% | 79 min | 3.86% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 241 | 59.1% | 76 min | 4.15% | D− |
Republic Airways cancels 3.9% 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.
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 24 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am160 flights86.6%
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm156 flights87.7%
- 2pm–5pm157 flights75.2%
- 5pm–8pm136 flights72.4%
- 8pm–5am76 flights63.9%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 63.9% on time, against 87.7% for the 11am–2pm 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 160 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on SYR to ORD through the year
August is the worst month at 68.8% on time, 23 points below February, the best at 91.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. June was the busiest month here, with 90 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.6%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Envoy runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 11,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
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 11,402 reported delay minutes.
41% 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 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 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.
Cancellations run at 2.62%, against 1.81% 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
8.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 607 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 78.8% on time across 686 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. 686 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 SYR to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 686 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 79.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 665 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SYR to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to SYR, the return leg
- American Airlines on SYR to ORD79.2%
- United Airlines on SYR to ORD75.3%
- Republic Airways on SYR to ORD72.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on SYR to ORD59.1%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.