Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Chicago → ILM

ORD–ILM · 760 miles · Chicago O'Hare International Airport to ILM Airport

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
77%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
1.6%
Cancelled
569
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines77% on time · 479 flights
  • United Airlines80% on time · 90 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

ORD–ILM flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 57% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

ORD–ILM flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 71%.

Recent months have been rougher.

ORD–ILM flights arrived on time 81% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 91% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon77%(75 flights)
  • Tue79%(63 flights)
  • Wed85%(71 flights)
  • Thu75%(89 flights)
  • Fri81%(88 flights)
  • Sat74%(86 flights)
  • Sun71%(87 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(172 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM79%(188 flights)
  • 12–3 PM62%(34 flights)
  • 3–6 PM57%(72 flights)
  • 6–9 PM77%(92 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
88%
May

Jun 71% → May 88% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202571%94
July 202565%105
August 202579%70
September 202594%31
October 202594%31
February 202687%38
March 202668%63
April 202686%55
May 202688%67

Keep nerding

Based on 569 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.