Carrier route record
F9CLE→LGA
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to New York
- Flights
- 157
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Frontier Airlines.
Frontier on CLE to LGA draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 157 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Frontier on CLE to LGA runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 129 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.82%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.9%
Every carrier on CLE to LGA, 1,826 flights
These figures cover 157 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on CLE to LGA
Frontier flew 157 of the 1,826 flights on CLE to LGA, about 9% of it. Its 64.7% on time is 11 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 77.0% to Frontier at 64.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 1,669 | 77.0% | 75 min | 5.75% | B− |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 157 | 64.7% | 80 min | 3.82% | D− |
Departure window
When Frontier runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 36 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–8am—
- 8am–11am37 flights91.9%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm66 flights55.6%
- 5pm–8pm7 flights—
- 8pm–5am47 flights59.1%
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 55.6% for the afternoon window. That is 36 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 66 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CLE to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202568 flights71.2%
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights59.5%
- Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202637 flights60.0%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. 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 64.7% on time across 157 flights.
Frontier on CLE to LGA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 71.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.5%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 52 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 70.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.6%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 73% of the 4,232 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.
- 73%National Airspace System
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 8%Carrier
73% 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 3,077 minutes out of 4,232, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,232 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.82%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 17.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
At 419 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 60.7% on time across 157 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 157 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 Frontier on CLE to LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.82% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 150 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to LGA, every carrier
- Frontier on LGA to CLE, the return leg
- Republic Airways on CLE to LGA77.0%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.