Carrier route record
MQTVC→ORD
Envoy Air · Traverse City to Chicago
- Flights
- 188
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.
Envoy on TVC to ORD lands a B, 4 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 188 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 478 at 80.9% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Envoy on TVC 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
81.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 183 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
69.2%
Every carrier on TVC to ORD, 2,616 flights
These figures cover 188 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 TVC to ORD
Envoy flew 188 of the 2,616 flights on TVC to ORD, about 7% of it. Its 81.4% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 69.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.4% to PSA at 61.7%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 80.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 61.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 377 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air (this page)thin sample | 188 | 81.4% | 79 min | 2.66% | B |
| Republic Airways | 478 | 80.9% | 84 min | 3.35% | B− |
| United Airlines | 457 | 74.0% | 67 min | 3.06% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,116 | 62.3% | 121 min | 5.47% | D− |
| PSA Airlines | 377 | 61.7% | 109 min | 11.41% | D− |
PSA Airlines cancels 11.4% 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 21 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am54 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm52 flights82.0%
- 2pm–5pm46 flights77.8%
- 5pm–8pm31 flights71.0%
- 8pm–5am5 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.3% of the time, against 71.0% for the evening window. That is 21 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 54 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Envoy on TVC to ORD through the year
- Jul–Sep 20256 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202545 flights65.9%
- Jan–Mar 202636 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 2026101 flights90.7%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. 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 81.4% on time across 188 flights.
Envoy on TVC to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.9%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 63 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.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 78.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.3%. 6 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 2,692 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Extreme weather
- 22%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,692 reported delay minutes.
43% 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 2,692 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 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 2.66%, 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
7.7% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 224 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 80.5% on time across 189 flights, within about 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. 188 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 TVC to ORD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 188 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 81.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 183 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TVC to ORD, every carrier
- Envoy on ORD to TVC, the return leg
- Republic Airways on TVC to ORD80.9%
- United Airlines on TVC to ORD74.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on TVC to ORD62.3%
- PSA Airlines on TVC to ORD61.7%
- Envoy Air network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.