Lynchburg to Chicago: on-time record

Lynchburg Regional/Preston Glenn Field to Chicago O'Hare International

78.5%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report. Data through July 2026; this is a monthly history, not live flight status.

Flights from Lynchburg (LYH) to Chicago (ORD) arrived on time 78.5% of the time in the 12 months to July 2026. Reporting carriers scheduled 130 flights on the route in that period, about 0.4 a day, a distance of 564 miles.

That is 2.5 points above the national on-time share of 76.0% for the same period. Flights that did arrive were 18.6 min late on average, and 0.8% of scheduled flights were cancelled (national: 1.8%).

SkyWest Airlines is the only reporting carrier on the route, with 130 flights in the period.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category on this route, late-arriving aircraft 59%, air carrier 19% and extreme weather 17%.

78.5%arrived on timenational 76.0%

18.6 minaverage arrival delayearly arrivals count as negative; national 8.1 min

0.8%cancellednational 1.8%

11flights a month130 in 12 months · 564 miles

On time 78.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.0%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.8%

Every scheduled LYH to ORD flight by a reporting carrier, August 2025 to July 2026.

Airlines on the route compared

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	130	100%	78.5%	18.6 min	0.8%

Carriers with at least 24 flights in the 12 months to July 2026. The on-time pill is green when a carrier is at or above the route's overall share. Regional carriers operate flights sold under larger airlines' brands; BTS lists the carrier that operated the flight.

Compared with the airports and the nation

Measure	LYH to ORD	All departures from LYH	All arrivals at ORD	All reported flights
Arrived on time	78.5%	—	71.2%	76.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late	20.0%	—	25.4%	21.9%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	2.9%	1.8%
Diverted	0.8%	—	0.5%	0.3%
Average arrival delay	18.6 min	—	15.4 min	8.1 min
Delay minutes per 100 flights	3,530	—	2,373	1,684
Scheduled flights	130	0	359,867	7,043,858

12 months to July 2026. Delay minutes count late arrivals only (an early arrival is zero), so the per-100-flights row is a normalised total rather than an average of early and late.

The return direction, ORD to LYH, recorded 61.5% on time across 130 flights in the same period.

Month by month

100%columns start at 40%

Share of scheduled LYH to ORD flights that arrived on time, Aug 2023 to Jul 2026. Green columns are at or above the national figure for that month (the dark tick), amber below it, red more than eight points below.

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of flights that arrived on time, by the hour they were scheduled to leave LYH (local time), 12 months to July 2026. Faded cells have few flights. Hover or tap a cell for counts.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National	Minutes
Air carrier	18.6%	33.3%	847
Late-arriving aircraft	58.8%	39.7%	2,683
National Aviation System	5.4%	20.7%	246
Extreme weather	17.2%	6.1%	787
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,563 delay minutes on 26 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Seasonality

Calendar month	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Avg arrival delay	Years in sample
Mar	8	75.0%	0.0%	33.3 min	1
Apr	30	73.3%	0.0%	29.4 min	1
May	31	80.6%	0.0%	29.5 min	1
Jun	30	83.3%	3.3%	10.2 min	1
Jul	31	77.4%	0.0%	0.9 min	1

Each calendar month summed across the 36 months on file, so most rows combine three years. The pill compares the month with the route's own 12-month share.

Questions and answers

How often are flights from Lynchburg to Chicago on time?

78.5% of the 130 flights scheduled from LYH to ORD in the 12 months to July 2026 arrived less than 15 minutes after their scheduled time. The national share for the same period was 76.0%. Cancelled and diverted flights count as not on time.

Which airline has the highest on-time share from LYH to ORD?

SkyWest Airlines is the only reporting carrier with at least 60 flights on the route in the period, so there is no comparison to make.

What causes delays between Lynchburg and Chicago?

For flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late, carriers attributed the delay minutes as follows: late-arriving aircraft 59%, air carrier 19%, extreme weather 17%, national aviation system 5%, security 0%. The categories are the carriers' own reports to BTS; weather that slows the wider system is usually recorded under the National Aviation System rather than extreme weather.

What time of day has the highest on-time share from LYH?

Too few departure hours carry enough flights on this route to compare them.

Is it getting better?

The route does not have enough flights in the previous 12 months for a year-on-year comparison. The monthly chart on this page shows the months that are available.

Where does this data come from?

Every figure is computed from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance files, which list each scheduled domestic flight by the carriers required to report. This page covers August 2023 to July 2026. It shows totals and averages only; it is not a live flight-status service.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (1987 to present), monthly files August 2023 to July 2026, a US government work in the public domain. Figures are totals and averages over all scheduled flights by reporting carriers on the route; no individual flight or aircraft is identified. Times are local to the departure airport. The load factor and passenger counts from the BTS T-100 series are not included in this edition. See the methodology; report processing errors through corrections.