Airport month record

CVGAPR

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International in April 2026

Departures: 2,835
Month: April 2026
National, same month: 79.8%
Carriers: 11

Historical statistics for April 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s April. For today’s conditions at CVG, see live FAA status.

CVG in April lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 79.8%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,835 flights, of which Delta Air Lines flew 611 at 90.2% on time.

On time

83.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,804 completed departures

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.02%

Nationally in April: 0.90%

Whole year

78.8%

CVG across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,835 departures from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International in April 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

April next to CVG's other months

Against CVG's own year, April ran 5 points better than the twelve-month rate of 78.8%, which makes it number two of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for CVG in April, at 1.02% against 1.91% across the year. Either side of it, March ran 75.4% on time and May 82.4%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

CVG month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	3,077	71.5%	94 min	2.73%	C
August 2025	2,894	80.7%	81 min	1.11%	B
September 2025	2,613	85.4%	69 min	0.61%	A+
October 2025	2,941	81.2%	61 min	0.48%	B+
November 2025	2,713	82.7%	86 min	2.69%	B
December 2025	2,710	67.7%	84 min	1.70%	C
January 2026	2,380	80.3%	81 min	6.26%	B−
February 2026	2,270	77.8%	70 min	1.45%	B
March 2026	3,105	75.4%	90 min	2.80%	B
April 2026 (this page)	2,835	83.6%	85 min	1.02%	B
May 2026	3,064	82.4%	66 min	1.01%	B
June 2026	3,129	77.7%	83 min	1.57%	B

Departure window

The best time of day to leave CVG in April

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am813 flights91.5%
8am–11am478 flights85.6%
11am–2pm354 flights82.2%
2pm–5pm546 flights81.7%
5pm–8pm477 flights74.4%
8pm–5am167 flights73.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.5% of the time, against 73.9% for the overnight window. That is 18 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 813 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 88.0% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 79.7%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at CVG in April

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

Carriers at CVG in April 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	611	90.2%	70 min	0.82%	A+
Republic Airways	396	86.8%	63 min	0.51%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	270	79.5%	66 min	2.59%	B
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	265	84.5%	142 min	0.38%	B+
Allegiant Airthin sample	259	82.2%	56 min	0.00%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	244	77.0%	114 min	0.41%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	234	83.2%	108 min	0.85%	B+
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	233	84.5%	63 min	0.00%	B+
United Airlinesthin sample	167	87.2%	53 min	1.80%	A
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	126	59.0%	107 min	6.35%	D−
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	30	70.0%	65 min	0.00%	C+

No carrier stands out. Delta tops the table at 90.2%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of CVG in April

Routes from CVG in April 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
CVG to ORD · Chicago	404	71.2%	86 min	4.46%	C−
CVG to ATL · Atlantathin sample	243	88.6%	88 min	2.06%	A
CVG to BOS · Bostonthin sample	175	83.3%	54 min	0.57%	B+
CVG to MCO · Orlandothin sample	167	88.6%	78 min	0.60%	A+
CVG to CLT · Charlottethin sample	152	77.0%	171 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	140	78.8%	69 min	1.43%	B
CVG to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	133	90.2%	52 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to DEN · Denverthin sample	117	87.9%	92 min	0.85%	A+
CVG to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample	100	83.0%	58 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	86	89.5%	70 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	84	69.9%	88 min	1.19%	C
CVG to MIA · Miamithin sample	80	88.8%	29 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to TPA · Tampathin sample	72	84.7%	138 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	62	90.3%	60 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to IAH · Houstonthin sample	60	83.3%	51 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	60	85.0%	45 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to BWI · Baltimorethin sample	60	96.7%	217 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to MDW · Chicagothin sample	60	75.0%	69 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to SEA · Seattlethin sample	60	83.3%	94 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to RSW · Fort Myersthin sample	59	93.2%	78 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	52	84.6%	188 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to IAD · Washingtonthin sample	51	94.1%	167 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to VPS · Valparaisothin sample	35	77.1%	67 min	0.00%	B+
CVG to JFK · New Yorkthin sample	35	97.1%	90 min	0.00%	A+
CVG to EWR · Newarkthin sample	32	96.9%	89 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held CVG up in April

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 39,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
30%
National Airspace System
23%
Extreme weather
7%

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 39,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 39,086 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.02% against a national 0.90%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.07%.

6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 6.4%. 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 last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

What to do with this

Flying from CVG in April

For a April trip through CVG: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 83.6% on time with 1.02% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG), the whole year
CVG in July71.5%
CVG in August80.7%
CVG in September85.4%
CVG in October81.2%
CVG in November82.7%
CVG in December67.7%
CVG in January80.3%
CVG in February77.8%
CVG in March75.4%
CVG in May82.4%
CVG in June77.7%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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