OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Oklahoma City to Chicago

691 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on OKC–MDW arrive on time 84% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate84%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.2%of scheduled flights

based on 445 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.2%
    Flights445

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline12%
  • Weather12%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft61%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly OKC → MDW

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 93% on time.

  • Mornings93% on time · p90 5 min · 677 flights
  • Middays87% on time · p90 15 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Afternoons78% on time · p90 30 min · 560 flights
  • Evenings69% on time · p90 60 min · 174 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 80% to 88% on time.

  • Mondays88% on time · p90 15 min · 252 flights
  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 202 flights
  • Fridays85% on time · p90 20 min · 251 flights
  • Saturdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 182 flights · limited
  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 248 flights
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 30 min · 227 flights
  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 203 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.