Carrier route record

YXCLE→PHL

Republic Airways · Cleveland to Philadelphia

Flights: 157
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 4

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

Republic on CLE to PHL sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 157 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Republic on CLE to PHL runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 65 extra late arrivals.

On time

71.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 152 completed flights

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.18%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.9%

Every carrier on CLE to PHL, 1,060 flights

These figures cover 157 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on CLE to PHL

Republic flew 157 of the 1,060 flights on CLE to PHL, about 15% of it. Its 71.1% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 85.4% to Republic at 71.1%. Two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on CLE to PHL
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	41	85.4%	39 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines	590	77.8%	121 min	7.63%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	272	77.0%	93 min	4.04%	B−
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	157	71.1%	68 min	3.18%	C−

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 27 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–8am21 flights—
8am–11am33 flights74.2%
11am–2pm33 flights84.4%
2pm–5pm47 flights57.4%
5pm–8pm23 flights—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 84.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 57.4%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 47 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on CLE to PHL through the year

Jul–Sep 202556 flights69.8%
Oct–Dec 202594 flights69.6%
Jan–Mar 20266 flights—
Apr–Jun 20261 flights—

Scale runs 60% 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 71.1% on time across 157 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on CLE to PHL logged 56 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 94 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 6 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 1 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 71.1% annual figure is the one to use.

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 2,999 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
National Airspace System
28%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,253 of the 2,999 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,999 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.18%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

7.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 363 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 73.2% on time across 154 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. 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 Republic on CLE to PHL

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.18% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 152 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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