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SHD to ORD flight delays

Staunton, VA (SHD) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 541 miles

148 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

70.83%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

2.03%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

149 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

44 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The two directions do not behave alike. ORD to SHD arrives on time 18 points less 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 route does worse than its own airport. SHD as a whole runs 10.6 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.

Only SkyWest Airlines 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.

Flights from Staunton to Chicago run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over July 2024 – July 2026, SkyWest Airlines arrived on time most often on SHD to ORD. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in March.

Every airline on SHD 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
SkyWest Airlines 148 70.83% 2.03% 149 min D

Month by month

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

Feb 2026 peak 86 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Staunton to Chicago usually delayed?

70.83% of flights on the SHD to ORD 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 Staunton to Chicago?

Only SkyWest Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 148 flights and 70.83% arriving on time.

How often are SHD to ORD flights cancelled?

2.03% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 20 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

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

About 149 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 SHD to ORD during July 2024 – July 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 →