Carrier route record
YXPHL→CLE
Republic Airways · Philadelphia to Cleveland
- Flights
- 154
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on PHL to CLE sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 154 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Republic on PHL to CLE runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 149 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.25%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on PHL to CLE, 1,057 flights
These figures cover 154 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% 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 PHL to CLE
Republic flew 154 of the 1,057 flights on PHL to CLE, about 15% of it. Its 73.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 90.2% to American at 71.6%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 90.2% | 75 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 590 | 75.2% | 90 min | 6.10% | B− |
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 154 | 73.2% | 59 min | 3.25% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 272 | 71.6% | 83 min | 4.04% | C− |
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 34 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–11am38 flights94.7%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm73 flights68.5%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am43 flights60.5%
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.5% on time, against 94.7% 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 73 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on PHL to CLE through the year
- Jul–Sep 202555 flights61.5%
- Oct–Dec 202593 flights79.1%
- Jan–Mar 20265 flights—
- Apr–Jun 20261 flights—
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 73.2% on time across 154 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on PHL to CLE logged 55 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 93 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 5 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 1 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 73.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 2,354 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.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
59% 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 2,354 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 21 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 2,354 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 94.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.25%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 9.4% 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 71.1% on time across 157 flights, within 2 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. 154 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 PHL to CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.25% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 149 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to CLE, every carrier
- Republic on CLE to PHL, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on PHL to CLE75.2%
- American Airlines on PHL to CLE71.6%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.