OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Norfolk

296 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LGA–ORF arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled5.6%of scheduled flights

based on 1,392 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airways
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel5.6%
    Flights1,392

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline19%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)25%
  • Late aircraft51%
  • 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 → ORF

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 71% to 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 1,241 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 905 flights
  • Evenings78% on time · p90 70 min · 118 flights · limited
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 45 min · 1,207 flights
  • Overnights71% on time · p90 55 min · 1,616 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 84% on time.

  • Saturdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 339 flights
  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 30 min · 818 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 813 flights
  • Thursdays79% on time · p90 40 min · 809 flights
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 35 min · 810 flights
  • Fridays77% on time · p90 40 min · 804 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 45 min · 694 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.