Carrier performance at one airport
YX→PIT
Republic Airways at Pittsburgh International
- Departures
- 11,605
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Routes
- 10
- Rank here
- #2 of 12
Republic Airways at Pittsburgh earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 11,605 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 3,309 at 88.0% on time.
Measured against the airport rather than the country, Republic Airways runs 3 points ahead of the 81.5% weighted average across all carriers at PIT. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.
Key figures
On time
84.1%
11,260 completed departures
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed flights only
Cancelled
2.90%
At PIT, this carrier only
Rank here
#2
Of 12 carriers clearing the floor at PIT
These figures cover 12,000 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Against the competition
Every carrier at PIT, ranked
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 88.0% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 67.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 713 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 3,309 | 88.0% | 66 min | 1.99% | A |
| Republic Airways (this page) | 11,605 | 84.1% | 66 min | 2.90% | B |
| United Airlines | 4,060 | 82.8% | 78 min | 0.94% | B+ |
| Southwest Airlines | 10,332 | 80.6% | 59 min | 0.69% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 5,891 | 79.7% | 101 min | 1.68% | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 1,219 | 79.6% | 75 min | 3.69% | B− |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,702 | 79.5% | 86 min | 3.76% | B− |
| Allegiant Air | 1,634 | 79.5% | 97 min | 0.86% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,219 | 74.7% | 111 min | 1.80% | C |
| Alaska Airlines | 471 | 71.1% | 55 min | 1.27% | C |
| Envoy Air | 469 | 69.7% | 67 min | 2.77% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 713 | 67.3% | 86 min | 6.31% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 6.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Route by route
Where Republic Airways flies from PIT
Republic Airways operates 10 routes out of PIT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIT to LGA · New York | 2,861 | 81.7% | 71 min | 4.89% | B− |
| PIT to EWR · Newark | 1,752 | 87.5% | 64 min | 3.65% | A− |
| PIT to ORD · Chicago | 1,629 | 84.2% | 74 min | 1.66% | B |
| PIT to JFK · New York | 1,310 | 87.8% | 74 min | 2.52% | A |
| PIT to BOS · Boston | 1,144 | 81.8% | 62 min | 2.53% | B |
| PIT to DCA · Washington | 773 | 75.8% | 56 min | 2.07% | B |
| PIT to IAD · Washington | 767 | 88.4% | 50 min | 1.83% | A |
| PIT to RDU · Raleigh | 678 | 85.1% | 56 min | 0.74% | A+ |
| PIT to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 343 | 83.5% | 74 min | 1.17% | B |
| PIT to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 305 | 89.7% | 46 min | 1.64% | A |
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 22 points, against 21 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am3,279 flights93.2%
- 8am–11am2,759 flights87.7%
- 11am–2pm1,966 flights82.5%
- 2pm–5pm1,378 flights74.9%
- 5pm–8pm2,018 flights71.6%
- 8pm–5am205 flights85.6%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 71.6% for the evening window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 3,279 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Seasonal pattern
December is the weak month at 75.8% on time, against 90.4% in May. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 1,048 flights.
Delay causes
What holds this operation up
- 47%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 55,000 minutes out of 118,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 117,790 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.90%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
5.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route are the about an hour kind, which a normal layover absorbs.
The sample behind these figures is 11,605 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 delay figures matter less here than the 2.90% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 11,260 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
Republic Airways at PIT
How often is Republic Airways at PIT delayed?
About one flight in six arrive at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 15.9% of the 11,605 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on Republic Airways at PIT?
Delta Air Lines leads at 88.0% on time across 3,309 flights. PSA Airlines is at the other end on 67.3%, a gap of 21 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on Republic Airways at PIT?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 93.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 71.6%, 22 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 Republic Airways at PIT?
December is the weakest month at 75.8% on time, compared with 90.4% in May. 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Updated monthly. How this data is collected.