Carrier route record
F9LGA→CLE
Frontier Airlines · New York to Cleveland
- Flights
- 157
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 about 2.2 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. 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 Frontier on LGA to CLE runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 169 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
60.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 150 completed flights
Avg delay
130 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.46%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
73.5%
Every carrier on LGA to CLE, 1,824 flights
These figures cover 157 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 22.0% 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
Frontier against every carrier on LGA to CLE
Frontier flew 157 of the 1,824 flights on LGA to CLE, about 9% of it. Its 60.7% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 74.7% to Frontier at 60.7%.
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 | 1,667 | 74.7% | 67 min | 5.76% | C− |
| Frontier Airlines (this page)thin sample | 157 | 60.7% | 130 min | 4.46% | D− |
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 157 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm3 flights—
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm80 flights59.0%
- 8pm–5am74 flights62.3%
Scale runs 50% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 62.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
Across the year
Frontier on LGA to CLE through the year
- Jul–Sep 202568 flights59.1%
- 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 60.7% on time across 157 flights.
Frontier on LGA to CLE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 74.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 50.0%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 52 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 70.6% on time and Thursday the weakest at 48.5%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Frontier runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 68% of the 7,665 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 68%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 7%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
68% 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 7,665 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 68 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 7,665 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.46%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 22.0% 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 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 64.7% on time across 157 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. 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 Frontier on LGA to CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.46% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.2 hours; 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. 150 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to CLE, every carrier
- Frontier on CLE to LGA, the return leg
- Republic Airways on LGA to CLE74.7%
- Frontier Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) 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.