CHS to ORD flight delays
Charleston, SC (CHS) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 760 miles
202 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
77.89%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.96%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
76 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
18 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.96% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
This is a thin route — 202 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
The Charleston to Chicago route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.
Every airline on CHS to ORD
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 60 | 84.75% | 0% | 84 min | — |
| American Airlines | 60 | 82.76% | 1.67% | 50 min | — |
| Envoy Air | 30 | 81.48% | 6.67% | 86 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 30 | 64% | 13.33% | 24 min | — |
| SkyWest Airlines | 22 | 57.14% | 4.55% | 146 min | — |
The return leg
ORD to CHS Chicago back to Charleston 79.7% on time COther routes from Charleston
Common questions
Are flights from Charleston to Chicago usually delayed?
77.89% of flights on the CHS to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
How often are CHS to ORD flights cancelled?
3.96% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 40 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When CHS to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 76 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on CHS to ORD during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →