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Route Reliability

Chicago → Missoula

ORDMSO · 1,332 miles · Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Missoula Montana Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
546
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.United Airlines88%152 flights
  2. 2.American Airlines74%394 flights

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

ORD–MSO flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 66% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

ORD–MSO flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Tuesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

United Airlines runs this route best.

United Airlines arrived on time 88% of the time on this route; American Airlines managed 74%.

Trending in the right direction.

ORD–MSO flights arrived on time 81% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 52% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon73%(79 flights)
  • Tue89%(72 flights)
  • Wed78%(76 flights)
  • Thu79%(80 flights)
  • Fri72%(76 flights)
  • Sat84%(79 flights)
  • Sun71%(80 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(126 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM78%(302 flights)
  • 3–6 PM(7 flights)
  • 6–9 PM66%(107 flights)
On-time trend by month
98%
May

Jun 85% → May 98% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202585%82
July 202575%91
August 202574%89
September 202588%72
October 202585%34
December 202531%13
January 202671%31
February 202654%28
March 202667%30
April 202680%30
May 202698%42

Based on 546 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.