OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Duluth to Chicago

397 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DLH–ORD arrive on time 66% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate66%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay90 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.7%of scheduled flights

based on 1,221 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • Republic Airways
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel3.8%
    Flights78
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time66%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel3.7%
    Flights1,143

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather16%
  • Air traffic (NAS)24%
  • Late aircraft32%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline0%
  • Weather93%
  • Air traffic (NAS)7%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 45 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DLH → ORD

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 30 min · 1,208 flights
  • Middays73% on time · p90 65 min · 753 flights
  • Afternoons72% on time · p90 75 min · 1,059 flights
  • Evenings58% on time · p90 110 min · 187 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 78% on time.

  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 50 min · 470 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 454 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 70 min · 472 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 50 min · 457 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 65 min · 475 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 70 min · 424 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 80 min · 455 flights

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.