Route reliability record
OKC→LGA
Oklahoma City to New York
- Flights
- 743
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,341 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.0% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five 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 743 OKC to LGA flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Best time to fly OKC to LGA: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.5% of the time and Wednesday flights 85.7%, against 79.4% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 699 completed flights
Avg delay
105 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.98%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Republic
78.1% on time across 634 flights
These figures cover 743 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on OKC to LGA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 109 | 86.2% | 65 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Republic Airways | 634 | 78.1% | 110 min | 5.84% | B− |
Flight by flight
Flights on OKC to LGA
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am358 flights85.1%
- 8am–11am147 flights91.5%
- 11am–2pm97 flights59.1%
- 2pm–5pm58 flights69.6%
- 5pm–8pm83 flights63.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 59.1% on time against 91.5% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 358 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter OKC to LGA by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On OKC to LGA, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 91.5% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 59.1%, a wide gap of 32.4 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am85.1%
- 8–11am91.5%
- 11am–2pm59.1%
- 2–5pm69.6%
- 5–8pm63.0%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 29 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
April is the best month on the calendar at 90.2% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. October was the busiest month here, with 88 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 74.8%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
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 15,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 25%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 15,180 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.98%, 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 actually costs
9.3% 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.
The 1,341 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.7% on time across 743 flights, 8 points below 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 743 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.98% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 699 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
OKC to LGA questions
How often is OKC to LGA delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.6% of the 743 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is OKC to LGA compared with the rest of the country?
79.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points in its favour. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on OKC to LGA?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 91.5% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 59.1%, 32 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are March delays on OKC to LGA?
March is the weakest month at 61.7% on time, compared with 90.2% in April. Across the year that is 29 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to OKC — the return legseparate record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on OKC to LGA86.2%
- Republic Airways on OKC to LGA78.1%
- OKC to DFW, a related route79.3%
- ORD to LGA, a related route66.6%
- OKC to DEN, a related route80.5%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record86.2%
- Republic Airways on-time record78.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. OKC to LGA and LGA to OKC are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.