Carrier route record
F9CLE→LGA
Frontier Airlines · Cleveland to New York
- Flights
- 103
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 6%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 103 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Frontier on CLE to LGA runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 130 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 98 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.88%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.0%
Every carrier on CLE to LGA, 1,772 flights
These figures cover 103 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Frontier against every carrier on CLE to LGA
Frontier flew 103 of the 1,772 flights on CLE to LGA, about 6% of it. Its 64.3% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.7% to Frontier at 64.3%.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 1,669 | 76.7% | 82 min | 6.29% | B− |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 103 | 64.3% | 78 min | 3.88% | D− |
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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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am31 flights90.3%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm17 flights—
- 5pm–8pm7 flights—
- 8pm–5am48 flights57.8%
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.8% on time, against 90.3% for the 8am–11am 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 48 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Frontier on CLE to LGA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202513 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202544 flights59.5%
- Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202637 flights60.0%
- Jul–Sep 20261 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 65%. 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 64.3% on time across 103 flights.
Split by quarter, Frontier on CLE to LGA logged 13 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 44 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 8 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 37 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 1 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 64.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 69% of the 2,735 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
- 10%Carrier
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,735 reported delay minutes.
69% 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 1,876 minutes out of 2,735, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.88%, against 1.89% 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
18.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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 60.8% on time across 102 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. 103 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 3.88% 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. 98 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 LGA76.7%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.