ORD to LAN flight delays
Chicago, IL (ORD) Lansing, MI (LAN) · 179 miles
777 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
73.91%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.83%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
61 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
17 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The season swings this route hard. In October it ran 32.2 points more punctual than in January — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.83% 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. LAN to ORD arrives on time 6.8 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.
Only Envoy Air flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Envoy Air arrived on time most often on ORD to LAN. Flights ran closest to schedule in October and worst in January.
Every airline on ORD to LAN
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 777 | 73.91% | 2.83% | 61 min | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
LAN to ORD Lansing back to Chicago 80.66% on time COther routes from Chicago
Common questions
Are flights from Chicago to Lansing usually delayed?
73.91% of flights on the ORD to LAN 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 airlines fly from Chicago to Lansing?
Only Envoy Air appears in the published record on this route, with 777 flights and 73.91% arriving on time.
How often are ORD to LAN flights cancelled?
2.83% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 28 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Chicago to Lansing?
October, when 85.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 53.3%.
When ORD to LAN flights are late, how late are they?
About 61 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 LAN 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 →