Carrier route record

F9LGA→CLE

Frontier Airlines · New York to Cleveland

Flights: 102
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 LGA to CLE draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 102 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Frontier on LGA to CLE runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 165 extra late arrivals.

On time

60.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 97 completed flights

Avg delay

97 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.90%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

73.1%

Every carrier on LGA to CLE, 1,769 flights

These figures cover 102 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.6% 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 LGA to CLE

Frontier flew 102 of the 1,769 flights on LGA to CLE, about 6% of it. Its 60.8% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 73.8% to Frontier at 60.8%.

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 LGA to CLE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	1,667	73.8%	69 min	6.12%	C−
Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample	102	60.8%	97 min	4.90%	D−

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Departure window

When Frontier runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 102 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Frontier's LGA to CLE record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 60.8% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Frontier on LGA to CLE through the year

Jul–Sep 202513 flights—
Oct–Dec 202544 flights50.0%
Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
Apr–Jun 202637 flights74.3%

Scale runs 40% to 80%. 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 60.8% on time across 102 flights.

Split by quarter, Frontier on LGA to CLE logged 13 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 44 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 8 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 37 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 60.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Frontier runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 80% of the 3,692 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
80%
National Airspace System
11%
Carrier
8%

80% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,692 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 80 to one. The split is drawn from 3,692 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 4.90%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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

20.6% 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 64.3% on time across 103 flights, 4 points above 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. 102 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 LGA to CLE

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.90% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 97 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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