Carrier route record
YXCLE→LGA
Republic Airways · Cleveland to New York
- Flights
- 1,669
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 94%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on CLE to LGA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,669 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on CLE to LGA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,556 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.29%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.0%
Every carrier on CLE to LGA, 1,772 flights
These figures cover 1,669 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on CLE to LGA
Republic flew 1,669 of the 1,772 flights on CLE to LGA, most of the route. Its 76.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 76.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.7% to Frontier at 64.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 (this page) | 1,669 | 76.7% | 82 min | 6.29% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 103 | 64.3% | 78 min | 3.88% | D− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on CLE to LGA
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am424 flights89.4%
- 8am–11am56 flights84.9%
- 11am–2pm529 flights76.6%
- 2pm–5pm364 flights72.7%
- 5pm–8pm296 flights61.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.1% on time, against 89.4% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 529 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on CLE to LGA through the year
August is the worst month at 69.1% on time, 18 points below September, the best at 87.2%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 194 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 84.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.7%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on CLE to LGA runs when it is late
Republic on CLE to LGA often beats the schedule: 522 of 1,556 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 362 late arrivals split 101 under half an hour, 101 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 160 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early522 flights33.5%
- Within 15 min672 flights43.2%
- 15–29 min late101 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late101 flights6.5%
- 1–2 hours late89 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late71 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,556 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
37 of 306 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 12% of them. In the other direction, 93 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on CLE to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 July 2026, 21 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2026 | 21 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 17 April 2026 | 15 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 April 2026 | 6 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 6 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 June 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 30,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 29,621 reported delay minutes.
45% 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 13,000 minutes out of 30,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 6.29%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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
10.3% 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 73.8% on time across 1,667 flights, within 3 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,669 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking Republic on CLE to LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.29% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,556 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to LGA, every carrier
- Republic on LGA to CLE, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on CLE to LGA64.3%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.