Carrier route record
YXCLE→LGA
Republic Airways · Cleveland to New York
- Flights
- 1,669
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 91%
- 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 LGA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.8% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% 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 77.6%, 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
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,567 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.75%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.9%
Every carrier on CLE to LGA, 1,826 flights
These figures cover 1,669 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% 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
Republic against every carrier on CLE to LGA
Republic flew 1,669 of the 1,826 flights on CLE to LGA, most of the route. Its 77.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 77.0% to Frontier at 64.7%. 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 | 77.0% | 75 min | 5.75% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 157 | 64.7% | 80 min | 3.82% | D− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on CLE to LGA
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 29 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–8am422 flights90.2%
- 8am–11am57 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm527 flights76.7%
- 2pm–5pm363 flights72.9%
- 5pm–8pm300 flights60.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.8% on time, against 90.2% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 527 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on CLE to LGA through the year
July is the worst month at 69.4% 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 87.2% on time and Thursday the weakest at 71.7%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
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 27,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%National Airspace System
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
38% 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 27,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 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 26,968 reported delay minutes.
41% 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 11,000 minutes out of 27,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 5.75%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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
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 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 74.7% on time across 1,667 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.
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 5.75% 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. 1,567 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 LGA64.7%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.