Carrier route record

OHTVC→ORD

PSA Airlines · Traverse City to Chicago

Flights: 377
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 14%
Carriers: 5

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

PSA on TVC to ORD draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 377 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Republic Airways, flew 478 at 80.9% on time.

Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 80.9% on time across 478 flights.

On time

61.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 334 completed flights

Avg delay

109 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

11.41%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

69.2%

Every carrier on TVC to ORD, 2,616 flights

These figures cover 377 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.3% 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

PSA against every carrier on TVC to ORD

PSA flew 377 of the 2,616 flights on TVC to ORD, about 14% of it. Its 61.7% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.4% to PSA at 61.7%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 80.9% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 62.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,116 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on TVC to ORD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Airthin 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 (this page)	377	61.7%	109 min	11.41%	D−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 5.5% 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 PSA 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 377 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm149 flights66.2%
2pm–5pm61 flights64.2%
5pm–8pm167 flights56.6%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.6% on time, against 66.2% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 167 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on TVC to ORD through the year

Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
Oct–Dec 2025144 flights53.8%
Jan–Mar 2026137 flights66.4%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights70.1%

Scale runs 45% to 75%. 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 61.7% on time across 377 flights.

PSA on TVC to ORD did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 70.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 53.8%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 126 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, Friday is the strongest day at 70.6% on time and Thursday the weakest at 49.0%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 14,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
64%
National Airspace System
17%
Carrier
11%
Extreme weather
8%

64% 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 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 13,951 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 11.41%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in nine 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 21.3% 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.

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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 67.6% on time across 377 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 377 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 PSA on TVC to ORD

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 11.41% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 334 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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