Carrier route record
YXORD→CLE
Republic Airways · Chicago to Cleveland
- Flights
- 583
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on ORD to CLE lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 583 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 879 at 73.1% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on ORD 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
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 551 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.32%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.8%
Every carrier on ORD to CLE, 4,893 flights
These figures cover 583 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
Republic against every carrier on ORD to CLE
Republic flew 583 of the 4,893 flights on ORD to CLE, about 12% of it. Its 76.2% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 76.2% to American at 59.2%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 73.1% of the time; American Airlines manages 59.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 396 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page) | 583 | 76.2% | 69 min | 5.32% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 879 | 73.1% | 62 min | 4.10% | C− |
| United Airlines | 2,182 | 71.8% | 78 min | 1.28% | C |
| SkyWest Airlines | 853 | 67.3% | 87 min | 3.40% | C− |
| American Airlines | 396 | 59.2% | 98 min | 3.54% | D− |
Envoy Air cancels 4.1% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 33 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am41 flights82.5%
- 8am–11am79 flights93.7%
- 11am–2pm132 flights77.6%
- 2pm–5pm146 flights72.6%
- 5pm–8pm46 flights60.5%
- 8pm–5am139 flights71.3%
Scale runs 50% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.5% on time, against 93.7% for the 8am–11am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 146 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on ORD to CLE through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 63.6%. July is the strongest month at 100.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 36 points. January was the busiest month here, with 86 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 69.6%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on ORD to CLE runs when it is late
Republic on ORD to CLE often beats the schedule: 158 of 551 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 131 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 51 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early158 flights28.7%
- Within 15 min262 flights47.5%
- 15–29 min late39 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late41 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late32 flights5.8%
- 2+ hours late19 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 551 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 109 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 12 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 34 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 ORD to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 January 2026, 5 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 January 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 March 2026 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 December 2025 | 3 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 9,054 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 17%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,054 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 9,054 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 93.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.32%, 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
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.
At 316 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 76.9% on time across 587 flights, within half a point 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. 583 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 ORD to CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.32% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 551 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ORD to CLE, every carrier
- Republic on CLE to ORD, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ORD to CLE73.1%
- United Airlines on ORD to CLE71.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on ORD to CLE67.3%
- American Airlines on ORD to CLE59.2%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.