ORD to CLE flight delays
Chicago, IL (ORD) Cleveland, OH (CLE) · 316 miles
383 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
68.29%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.66%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
96 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
31 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: 3.66% 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.
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. United Airlines arrived on time 6.1 points more often than SkyWest Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
The two directions do not behave alike. CLE to ORD arrives on time 7.1 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.
Flights from Chicago to Cleveland run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, United Airlines arrived on time most often on ORD to CLE. SkyWest Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on ORD to CLE
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 | 174 | 73.1% | 1.72% | 105 min | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 118 | 66.96% | 5.08% | 117 min | F |
| Republic Airways | 31 | 90.32% | 0% | 29 min | — |
| Envoy Air | 30 | 66.67% | 10% | 60 min | — |
| American Airlines | 30 | 21.43% | 6.67% | 63 min | — |
The return leg
CLE to ORD Cleveland back to Chicago 75.35% on time DOther routes from Chicago
Common questions
Are flights from Chicago to Cleveland usually delayed?
68.29% of flights on the ORD to CLE route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Chicago to Cleveland?
United Airlines, at 73.1% on time across 174 flights. The least punctual on the route was SkyWest Airlines at 66.96%.
How often are ORD to CLE flights cancelled?
3.66% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 37 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When ORD to CLE flights are late, how late are they?
About 96 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 ORD to CLE 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 →