Carrier route record
YXLGA→CLE
Republic Airways · New York to Cleveland
- Flights
- 1,667
- 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 LGA to CLE carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.1% 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 C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,667 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on LGA to CLE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,564 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.12%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.1%
Every carrier on LGA to CLE, 1,769 flights
These figures cover 1,667 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% 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 LGA to CLE
Republic flew 1,667 of the 1,769 flights on LGA to CLE, most of the route. Its 73.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 73.8% to Frontier at 60.8%. 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) | 1,667 | 73.8% | 69 min | 6.12% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 102 | 60.8% | 97 min | 4.90% | D− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on LGA to CLE
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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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am92 flights91.3%
- 8am–11am387 flights82.6%
- 11am–2pm379 flights80.1%
- 2pm–5pm327 flights67.4%
- 5pm–8pm58 flights62.5%
- 8pm–5am424 flights62.2%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 62.2% on time, against 91.3% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 424 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on LGA to CLE through the year
December is the weak month at 60.7% on time, against 85.3% in September. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. October was the busiest month here, with 194 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 78.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.2%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on LGA to CLE runs when it is late
Republic on LGA to CLE often beats the schedule: 544 of 1,564 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 409 late arrivals split 132 under half an hour, 113 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 164 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early544 flights34.8%
- Within 15 min611 flights39.1%
- 15–29 min late132 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late113 flights7.2%
- 1–2 hours late99 flights6.3%
- 2+ hours late65 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,564 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
43 of 340 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. In the other direction, 112 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 CLE.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on LGA to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 April 2026, 6 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across April, December, July and March, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2026 | 6 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 December 2025 | 6 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 July 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 11 March 2026 | 5 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 April 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 28,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 28,115 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.3% on time here.
Cancellations run at 6.12%, against 1.89% 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
10.5% 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 76.7% on time across 1,669 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 1,667 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 LGA to CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.12% 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. 1,564 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to CLE, every carrier
- Republic on CLE to LGA, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to CLE60.8%
- Republic Airways 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.