Carrier route record

YXCLE→IAD

Republic Airways · Cleveland to Washington

Flights: 269
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 27%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on CLE to IAD earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 269 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's CLE to IAD record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 263 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.23%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

87.6%

Every carrier on CLE to IAD, 981 flights

These figures cover 269 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on CLE to IAD

Republic flew 269 of the 981 flights on CLE to IAD, about 27% of it. Its 86.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 87.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 88.0% to Republic at 86.3%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLE to IAD
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	712	88.0%	87 min	0.28%	A+
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	269	86.3%	106 min	2.23%	A

Departure window

When Republic runs best on this route

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

5am–8am77 flights96.1%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm88 flights81.4%
5pm–8pm61 flights86.4%
8pm–5am43 flights78.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 96.1% of the time, against 78.6% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 88 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on CLE to IAD through the year

Jul–Sep 202547 flights82.2%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights87.4%
Jan–Mar 202659 flights89.8%
Apr–Jun 202673 flights84.7%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.3% on time across 269 flights.

Quarter by quarter Republic on CLE to IAD held fairly steady: 82.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 94.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.7%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 3,812 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
53%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
18%

53% 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 3,812 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 53 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 3,812 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 96.1% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.7% 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 last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 287 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 84.3% on time across 274 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 269 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Republic on CLE to IAD

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 269 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 86.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 263 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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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