Flights Columbia → Chicago
CAE → ORD
Route overview
The flight route from Columbia to Chicago has a punctuality rate of seventy-five percent, with an average delay time of twenty point eight minutes. Over the course of a year, this route sees two hundred sixty-seven flights, serving one of the busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic, which handles eighty million seven hundred twelve thousand one hundred seventy-three passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Columbia (CAE) → Chicago (ORD) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 358 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 22 minutes. The cancellation rate is 4.75%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 28.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Chicago the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Columbia the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Chicago: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Columbia (CAE) to Chicago (ORD) heads north-west for about 1,073 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 46m.
Departures from Columbia on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 42% of CAE-ORD flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Columbia the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Chicago it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 358 tracked CAE-ORD flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 22 min and a 4.8% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about CAE-ORD
On the Columbia (CAE) -> Chicago (ORD) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 22 minutes, based on 358 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Columbia-Chicago is 4.75% across 358 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
