Carrier route record

YXPBI→LGA

Republic Airways · West Palm Beach to New York

Flights: 126
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 4%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on PBI to LGA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.1 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 126 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,553 at 72.4% on time.

Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 72.4% on time across 1,553 flights.

On time

67.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 118 completed flights

Avg delay

125 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.56%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

68.8%

Every carrier on PBI to LGA, 3,199 flights

These figures cover 126 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.9% 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

Republic against every carrier on PBI to LGA

Republic flew 126 of the 3,199 flights on PBI to LGA, about 4% of it. Its 67.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 68.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 72.4% to American at 57.9%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 72.4% of the time; American Airlines manages 57.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 405 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PBI to LGA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	1,553	72.4%	66 min	4.44%	C−
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	126	67.8%	125 min	5.56%	C−
JetBlue Airways	1,115	67.7%	83 min	4.66%	C−
American Airlines	405	57.9%	97 min	4.20%	D−

JetBlue Airways cancels 4.7% 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.

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 15 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm45 flights65.9%
2pm–5pm39 flights83.3%
5pm–8pm41 flights54.1%
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.1% on time, against 83.3% for the 2pm–5pm 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 45 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on PBI to LGA through the year

Jul–Sep 202536 flights61.8%
Oct–Dec 202527 flights—
Apr–Jun 202663 flights77.6%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 67.8% on time across 126 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on PBI to LGA logged 36 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 27 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 63 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 67.8% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

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 4,754 reported delay minutes.

Extreme weather
36%
Late-arriving aircraft
28%
National Airspace System
22%
Carrier
14%

Extreme weather accounts for 36% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 5.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,754 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.56%, 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. 16.9% 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.

The 1,035 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.9% on time across 126 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 126 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 PBI to LGA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.56% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 118 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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