Carrier performance at one airport
G4→PIE
Allegiant Air at St. Pete-Clearwater International
- Departures
- 9,002
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Routes
- 25
- Rank here
- #1 of 1
Allegiant Air at St. Petersburg lands a B+, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 9,002 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, Allegiant Air runs half a point ahead of the 77.2% weighted average across all carriers at PIE. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
77.2%
8,914 completed departures
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
0.64%
At PIE, this carrier only
Rank here
#1
Of 1 carriers clearing the floor at PIE
These figures cover 9,002 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Against the competition
Every carrier at PIE, ranked
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air (this page) | 9,002 | 77.2% | 71 min | 0.64% | B+ |
Route by route
Where Allegiant Air flies from PIE
Allegiant Air operates 25 routes out of PIE with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIE to TYS · Knoxville | 525 | 75.1% | 93 min | 0.76% | B+ |
| PIE to AVL · Asheville | 511 | 77.6% | 75 min | 0.59% | B+ |
| PIE to GRR · Grand Rapids | 381 | 75.1% | 62 min | 0.26% | B+ |
| PIE to CVG · Cincinnatithin sample | 353 | 73.7% | 86 min | 0.57% | C+ |
| PIE to EYW · Key Westthin sample | 313 | 80.5% | 55 min | 0.64% | B+ |
| PIE to ABE · Allentownthin sample | 279 | 76.2% | 112 min | 0.72% | B+ |
| PIE to FNT · Flintthin sample | 273 | 74.6% | 59 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| PIE to IND · Indianapolisthin sample | 224 | 73.5% | 72 min | 0.45% | C+ |
| PIE to BGR · Bangorthin sample | 214 | 85.3% | 38 min | 0.93% | A+ |
| PIE to USA · Concordthin sample | 212 | 68.9% | 53 min | 1.42% | C |
| PIE to FWA · Fort Waynethin sample | 191 | 78.9% | 68 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIE to ATW · Appletonthin sample | 182 | 83.8% | 76 min | 1.10% | B |
| PIE to SGF · Springfieldthin sample | 180 | 75.3% | 69 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIE to DSM · Des Moinesthin sample | 179 | 78.4% | 85 min | 1.68% | B |
| PIE to LEX · Lexingtonthin sample | 174 | 71.9% | 54 min | 1.15% | C |
| PIE to BLV · Bellevillethin sample | 170 | 74.6% | 55 min | 0.59% | C+ |
| PIE to HTS · Huntingtonthin sample | 168 | 68.9% | 72 min | 0.00% | C+ |
| PIE to LCK · Columbusthin sample | 167 | 73.5% | 94 min | 0.60% | C+ |
| PIE to SYR · Syracusethin sample | 162 | 85.2% | 63 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PIE to CID · Cedar Rapidsthin sample | 160 | 83.9% | 65 min | 1.88% | B |
| PIE to PIA · Peoriathin sample | 159 | 80.4% | 63 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIE to PIT · Pittsburghthin sample | 158 | 60.1% | 107 min | 0.00% | D+ |
| PIE to SBN · South Bendthin sample | 142 | 85.9% | 60 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PIE to ALB · Albanythin sample | 137 | 88.1% | 43 min | 1.46% | A |
| PIE to CAK · Akronthin sample | 137 | 77.0% | 59 min | 0.73% | B+ |
Departure window
Best time of day for this operation
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1,802 flights92.9%
- 8am–11am1,528 flights90.1%
- 11am–2pm1,767 flights72.0%
- 2pm–5pm1,775 flights73.5%
- 5pm–8pm1,565 flights60.6%
- 8pm–5am565 flights66.5%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.6% on time, against 92.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 1,802 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
December is the weak month at 68.9% on time, against 83.4% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 969 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 144,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 143,548 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.64%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
8.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The sample behind these figures is 9,002 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 83.4% on time and December 68.9%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 8,914 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
Allegiant Air at PIE
How often is Allegiant Air at PIE delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.8% of the 9,002 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is Allegiant Air at PIE compared with the rest of the country?
77.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of half a point against it. That is worth a B+ on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on Allegiant Air at PIE?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 60.6%, 32 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are December delays on Allegiant Air at PIE?
December is the weakest month at 68.9% on time, compared with 83.4% in September. Across the year that is 15 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.