OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Omaha to New York

1,148 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on OMA–LGA arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay60 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled7.3%of scheduled flights

based on 151 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airways
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel7.3%
    Flights151

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline21%
  • Weather49%
  • Air traffic (NAS)21%
  • Late aircraft9%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Weather.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline9%
  • Weather36%
  • Air traffic (NAS)55%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS). Shares are among 11 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly OMA → LGA

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 1,277 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 35 min · 899 flights
  • Evenings72% on time · p90 75 min · 406 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 80 min · 190 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 78% to 88% on time.

  • Saturdays88% on time · p90 15 min · 209 flights
  • Mondays83% on time · p90 25 min · 449 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 448 flights
  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 40 min · 448 flights
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 15 min · 326 flights
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 449 flights
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 50 min · 443 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.