Airport month record
PITMAR
Pittsburgh International in March 2026
- Departures
- 3,434
- Month
- March 2026
- National, same month
- 75.7%
- Carriers
- 11
Historical statistics for March 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s March. For today’s conditions at PIT, see live FAA status.
PIT in March lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 75.7%. About one flight in five 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 3,434 flights, of which Republic Airways flew 862 at 82.1% on time.
Republic Airways is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 82.1% on time across 862 flights.
Key figures
On time
78.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,329 completed departures
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.88%
Nationally in March: 2.90%
Whole year
81.4%
PIT across all twelve months
These figures cover 3,434 departures from Pittsburgh International in March 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
March next to PIT's other months
Against PIT's own year, March ran 3 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 81.4%, which makes it number ten of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where March stands out: 2.88% of scheduled departures were called off, 1.5 times the airport's rate across the year. Either side of it, February ran 83.6% on time and April 85.3%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a better stretch.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 3,959 | 76.7% | 82 min | 3.31% | B− |
| August 2025 | 3,841 | 82.6% | 75 min | 1.20% | B |
| September 2025 | 3,672 | 86.2% | 70 min | 0.65% | A+ |
| October 2025 | 3,850 | 83.0% | 62 min | 0.81% | B+ |
| November 2025 | 3,510 | 84.4% | 78 min | 1.77% | B |
| December 2025 | 3,474 | 73.2% | 72 min | 1.50% | C |
| January 2026 | 3,099 | 79.2% | 81 min | 6.03% | B− |
| February 2026 | 2,943 | 83.6% | 63 min | 2.68% | B |
| March 2026 (this page) | 3,434 | 78.6% | 88 min | 2.88% | B |
| April 2026 | 3,531 | 85.3% | 71 min | 0.51% | A+ |
| May 2026 | 3,778 | 84.6% | 68 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| June 2026 | 3,815 | 79.1% | 85 min | 1.68% | B |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave PIT in March
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 41 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am1,071 flights92.2%
- 8am–11am669 flights84.5%
- 11am–2pm513 flights77.2%
- 2pm–5pm420 flights69.0%
- 5pm–8pm597 flights62.6%
- 8pm–5am164 flights51.6%
Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 51.6% on time, against 92.2% 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 1,071 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 75.0%. 6 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at PIT in March
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Republic Airways arrives on time 82.1% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 75.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 950 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 950 | 75.4% | 68 min | 1.68% | B |
| Republic Airways | 862 | 82.1% | 76 min | 3.36% | B− |
| American Airlines | 468 | 81.1% | 119 min | 1.50% | B |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 318 | 81.8% | 135 min | 1.57% | B |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 273 | 86.0% | 83 min | 5.13% | A− |
| Allegiant Airthin sample | 131 | 78.0% | 116 min | 1.53% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 121 | 85.7% | 131 min | 1.65% | A |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 98 | 72.6% | 73 min | 14.29% | C− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 72 | 64.3% | 110 min | 2.78% | D |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 59 | 48.1% | 104 min | 11.86% | F− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 53 | 57.7% | 47 min | 1.89% | D |
Republic Airways cancels 3.4% 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
Busiest routes out of PIT in March
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIT to ORD · Chicagothin sample | 281 | 71.3% | 114 min | 3.20% | C− |
| PIT to LGA · New Yorkthin sample | 250 | 70.2% | 78 min | 8.80% | C− |
| PIT to ATL · Atlantathin sample | 235 | 88.3% | 85 min | 4.68% | A− |
| PIT to MCO · Orlandothin sample | 215 | 78.8% | 61 min | 5.12% | B− |
| PIT to CLT · Charlottethin sample | 150 | 85.1% | 150 min | 1.33% | A |
| PIT to BOS · Bostonthin sample | 143 | 79.6% | 70 min | 0.70% | B+ |
| PIT to JFK · New Yorkthin sample | 128 | 89.5% | 83 min | 3.12% | A− |
| PIT to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample | 127 | 84.1% | 114 min | 0.79% | B+ |
| PIT to EWR · Newarkthin sample | 123 | 90.2% | 91 min | 0.81% | A+ |
| PIT to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample | 122 | 72.2% | 115 min | 5.74% | C− |
| PIT to DEN · Denverthin sample | 121 | 81.2% | 65 min | 3.31% | B− |
| PIT to DCA · Washingtonthin sample | 118 | 53.1% | 76 min | 4.24% | F− |
| PIT to IAD · Washingtonthin sample | 114 | 87.7% | 143 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PIT to DTW · Detroitthin sample | 99 | 71.9% | 106 min | 3.03% | C− |
| PIT to MIA · Miamithin sample | 95 | 77.2% | 47 min | 3.16% | B− |
| PIT to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 95 | 79.8% | 54 min | 1.05% | B |
| PIT to BWI · Baltimorethin sample | 93 | 82.4% | 51 min | 2.15% | B |
| PIT to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 89 | 69.0% | 78 min | 4.49% | C− |
| PIT to PHX · Phoenixthin sample | 74 | 83.8% | 78 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIT to TPA · Tampathin sample | 70 | 80.0% | 62 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIT to IAH · Houstonthin sample | 62 | 87.1% | 108 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PIT to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample | 62 | 79.0% | 37 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PIT to RDU · Raleighthin sample | 62 | 88.7% | 85 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PIT to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample | 62 | 95.1% | 49 min | 1.61% | A |
| PIT to RSW · Fort Myersthin sample | 60 | 63.8% | 69 min | 1.67% | D |
Delay causes
What held PIT up in March
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 62,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
39% 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 62,000 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 62,374 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.88%, against 2.90% 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.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 9.5% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
What to do with this
Flying from PIT in March
For a March trip through PIT: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 92.2% on time, and with 9.6% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.
Related
Where to go next
- Pittsburgh International (PIT), the whole year
- PIT in July76.7%
- PIT in August82.6%
- PIT in September86.2%
- PIT in October83.0%
- PIT in November84.4%
- PIT in December73.2%
- PIT in January79.2%
- PIT in February83.6%
- PIT in April85.3%
- PIT in May84.6%
- PIT in June79.1%
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.