Best airline from Memphis to Chicago

Most punctual on this route

C
United Airlines

83.96% on time across 332 flights · 3.61% cancelled

That is 6.8 points clear of Envoy Air, the next best on this route at 77.15%.

Every airline on MEM to ORD, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 United Airlines 332 83.96% 3.61% C
2 Envoy Air 821 77.15% 3.05% D
3 Republic Airways 468 75.56% 4.7% D
4 SkyWest Airlines 835 73.12% 2.28% D

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On MEM to ORD the spread between best and worst is 10.8 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full MEM to ORD record → · Best time of year to fly it →