Carrier route record
OOTVC→ORD
SkyWest Airlines · Traverse City to Chicago
- Flights
- 1,116
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on TVC to ORD carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,116 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.
Key figures
On time
62.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,053 completed flights
Avg delay
121 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.47%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
69.2%
Every carrier on TVC to ORD, 2,616 flights
These figures cover 1,116 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.8% 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
SkyWest against every carrier on TVC to ORD
SkyWest flew 1,116 of the 2,616 flights on TVC to ORD, about 43% of it. Its 62.3% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four 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; 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 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 (this page) | 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 SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 39 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am158 flights83.0%
- 8am–11am22 flights—
- 11am–2pm220 flights70.8%
- 2pm–5pm299 flights65.2%
- 5pm–8pm298 flights47.4%
- 8pm–5am119 flights43.6%
Scale runs 35% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 43.6% on time, against 83.0% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 299 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on TVC to ORD through the year
December is the weak month at 34.8% on time, against 82.0% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. June was the busiest month here, with 148 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 66.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 53.5%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest 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 48,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 17%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 47,953 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, 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 17,000 of the 48,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 5.47%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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. 19.8% 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.
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 64.0% on time across 1,115 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,116 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on TVC to ORD
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.47% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,053 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TVC to ORD, every carrier
- SkyWest on ORD to TVC, the return leg
- Envoy Air on TVC to ORD81.4%
- Republic Airways on TVC to ORD80.9%
- United Airlines on TVC to ORD74.0%
- PSA Airlines on TVC to ORD61.7%
- SkyWest Airlines 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.