Direct flights from Edinburgh (EDI) to Chicago (ORD): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. The median arrival is 16 minutes late. No cancellations were recorded across the 3 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 5,957 km, an estimated 8 hours 8 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at Edinburgh and Chicago. Updated 20 October 2026 at 17:43 UTC.
Left EDI at 11:46, 16 min after its 11:30 slot.
Landing estimate from 58,382 tracked flights of 8 hours or longer that left 15 to 29 min late. The ORD board has not posted a landing time yet. How planes make up time
Track UA119 →Checked EDI board 18:38 · ORD board 12:08
route health from live EDI and ORD delay boards
Median arrival delay is +16 min. 0 of 3 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights UA119 11:30 daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Current conditions put the pressure at ORD: 41% odds of a 15+ minute delay and around +11 min expected when it bites, measured from this route's own weather-matched delay history. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
next sweep in 120s
Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop EDI to ORD flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search — Edinburgh (EDI) to Chicago (ORD) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at EDI is the weaker end, route health score 87/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 5,957 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 450–541 min gate-to-gate on this route.
United Airlines runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at EDI and arrival-side delay at ORD, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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