Carrier route record

OHPHL→CLE

PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Cleveland

Flights: 590
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 56%
Carriers: 4

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

PSA on PHL to CLE sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 590 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate PSA on PHL to CLE from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

75.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 552 completed flights

Avg delay

90 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.10%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.6%

Every carrier on PHL to CLE, 1,057 flights

These figures cover 590 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.7% 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

PSA against every carrier on PHL to CLE

PSA flew 590 of the 1,057 flights on PHL to CLE, most of the route. Its 75.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 90.2% to American at 71.6%. Three 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.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to CLE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	41	90.2%	75 min	0.00%	A+
PSA Airlines (this page)	590	75.2%	90 min	6.10%	B−
Republic Airwaysthin sample	154	73.2%	59 min	3.25%	C−
American Airlinesthin sample	272	71.6%	83 min	4.04%	C−

Departure window

When PSA runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am220 flights87.1%
11am–2pm62 flights69.0%
2pm–5pm165 flights66.5%
5pm–8pm74 flights69.1%
8pm–5am69 flights68.9%

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 87.1% of the time, against 66.5% for the afternoon window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 220 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

PSA on PHL to CLE through the year

Jul–Sep 2025108 flights70.9%
Oct–Dec 202554 flights72.0%
Jan–Mar 2026240 flights72.9%
Apr–Jun 2026188 flights81.1%

Scale runs 60% 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 75.2% on time across 590 flights.

PSA on PHL to CLE did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 81.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 70.9%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 148 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, Monday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 56.4%. 30 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why PSA runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 12,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
51%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
6%

51% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 12,361 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 87.1% on time here.

Cancellations run at 6.10%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.7% 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 363 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 77.8% on time across 590 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 590 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 PSA on PHL to CLE

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.10% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 552 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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