OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Cleveland

418 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LGA–CLE arrive on time 71% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled4.1%of scheduled flights

based on 1,763 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airwaysbest
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel4.0%
    Flights1,610
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time59%
    Medianon time
    p90140 min
    Cancel5.9%
    Flights153

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline15%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)29%
  • Late aircraft52%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly LGA → CLE

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 88% on time.

  • Mornings88% on time · p90 10 min · 2,033 flights
  • Middays83% on time · p90 30 min · 1,483 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 55 min · 1,669 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 65 min · 1,213 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 70 min · 849 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 82% on time.

  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,192 flights
  • Saturdays81% on time · p90 50 min · 494 flights
  • Wednesdays81% on time · p90 35 min · 1,158 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 1,174 flights
  • Mondays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,161 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 35 min · 931 flights
  • Fridays77% on time · p90 55 min · 1,137 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.