OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Chicago to Sioux City

436 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ORD–SUX arrive on time 61% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate61%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay110 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.9%of scheduled flights

based on 337 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time61%
    Medianon time
    p90110 min
    Cancel3.9%
    Flights337

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline39%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)20%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly ORD → SUX

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

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 82% on time.

  • Middays82% on time · p90 40 min · 436 flights
  • Overnights62% on time · p90 100 min · 635 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 77% on time.

  • Thursdays77% on time · p90 45 min · 155 flights · limited
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 55 min · 156 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays71% on time · p90 80 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Fridays69% on time · p90 75 min · 156 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 55 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Mondays68% on time · p90 65 min · 155 flights · limited
  • Sundays68% on time · p90 115 min · 155 flights · limited
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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.