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Route Reliability

Albany → Chicago

ALB–MDW · 717 miles · Albany International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport

84
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
1.4%
Cancelled
723
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 82% of the time across 723 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

ALB–MDW flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 67% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

ALB–MDW flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Fridays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

ALB–MDW flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 89% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon84%(109 flights)
  • Tue84%(100 flights)
  • Wed81%(101 flights)
  • Thu82%(110 flights)
  • Fri87%(111 flights)
  • Sat80%(78 flights)
  • Sun71%(104 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(193 flights)
  • 6–9 AM90%(166 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(72 flights)
  • 3–6 PM67%(58 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(224 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Jun 77% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202577%73
July 202569%83
August 202587%77
September 202594%77
October 202591%57
November 202584%55
December 202575%60
January 202694%35
February 202696%28
March 202666%56
April 202682%56
May 202677%56

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Based on 723 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.