OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Philadelphia to Cleveland

363 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHL–CLE arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay90 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.3%of scheduled flights

based on 669 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Republic Airwaysbest
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights215
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time62%
    Medianon time
    p90130 min
    Cancel5.6%
    Flights269
  • American Airlines
    On-time63%
    Medianon time
    p90115 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights185

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Late aircraft64%
  • 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 PHL → 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 — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 596 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 45 min · 632 flights
  • Overnights75% on time · p90 50 min · 496 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 65 min · 967 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 90 min · 584 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 80% on time.

  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 459 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 439 flights
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 50 min · 502 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 75 min · 489 flights
  • Saturdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 379 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 65 min · 495 flights
  • Fridays70% on time · p90 90 min · 512 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.