TVC to ORD flight delays
Traverse City, MI (TVC) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 224 miles
278 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
81.4%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
7.19%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
107 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
21 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: 7.19% 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 shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 107 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
The two directions do not behave alike. ORD to TVC arrives on time 10 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.
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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, SkyWest Airlines arrived on time most often on TVC to ORD.
Every airline on TVC 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 | 70.15% | 9.46% | 111 min | F |
| Envoy Air | 64 | 90.16% | 4.69% | 104 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 37 | 94.59% | 0% | 23 min | — |
| United Airlines | 29 | 100% | 10.34% | — | — |
The return leg
ORD to TVC Chicago back to Traverse City 71.43% on time FOther routes from Traverse City
Common questions
Are flights from Traverse City to Chicago usually delayed?
81.4% of flights on the TVC to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Traverse City to Chicago?
Only SkyWest Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 148 flights and 70.15% arriving on time.
How often are TVC to ORD flights cancelled?
7.19% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 72 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When TVC to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 107 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 TVC to ORD 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 →