OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Atlanta to Cleveland

554 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ATL–CLE arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 3,227 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.5%
    Flights2,689
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights31
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights507

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline46%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft35%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly ATL → CLE

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 68% to 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 2,464 flights
  • Middays83% on time · p90 25 min · 1,661 flights
  • Afternoons79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,911 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 55 min · 2,122 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 60 min · 1,579 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,311 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,337 flights
  • Thursdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,467 flights
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,204 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 40 min · 1,489 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 50 min · 1,480 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 50 min · 1,449 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.