ORD to EGE flight delays
Chicago, IL (ORD) Eagle, CO (EGE) · 1,007 miles
412 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
57.36%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.4%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
84 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
37 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. United Airlines arrived on time 11.9 points more often than American 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.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.4% 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 late route. Flights from Chicago to Eagle miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. EGE to ORD arrives on time 12.6 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, United Airlines arrived on time most often on ORD to EGE. American Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in June and worst in April.
Every airline on ORD to EGE
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 | 243 | 62.23% | 2.88% | 71 min | F |
| American Airlines | 169 | 50.31% | 4.14% | 98 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
EGE to ORD Eagle back to Chicago 69.92% on time FOther routes from Chicago
Common questions
Are flights from Chicago to Eagle usually delayed?
57.36% of flights on the ORD to EGE 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 airline is most on time from Chicago to Eagle?
United Airlines, at 62.23% on time across 243 flights. The least punctual on the route was American Airlines at 50.31%.
How often are ORD to EGE flights cancelled?
3.4% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 34 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When ORD to EGE flights are late, how late are they?
About 84 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 EGE 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 →