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HHH to ORD flight delays

Hilton Head, SC (HHH) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 781 miles

160 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

62.09%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

3.13%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

72 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

28 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: 3.13% 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.

The two directions do not behave alike. ORD to HHH arrives on time 14.5 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.

This is a late route. Flights from Hilton Head to Chicago miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.

This route does worse than its own airport. HHH as a whole runs 19.2 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, Republic Airways arrived on time most often on HHH to ORD. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in July.

Every airline on HHH 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
Republic Airways 107 59.22% 2.8% 71 min F
Envoy Air 53 68% 3.77% 76 min

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 100 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Hilton Head to Chicago usually delayed?

62.09% of flights on the HHH to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airlines fly from Hilton Head to Chicago?

Only Republic Airways appears in the published record on this route, with 107 flights and 59.22% arriving on time.

How often are HHH to ORD flights cancelled?

3.13% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 31 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.

When HHH to ORD flights are late, how late are they?

About 72 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 HHH to ORD during January 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 →