Carrier route record
YXPHL→PIT
Republic Airways · Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
- Flights
- 305
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 25%
- 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 PIT lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 305 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's PHL to PIT record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 51 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 294 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
75.9%
Every carrier on PHL to PIT, 1,227 flights
These figures cover 305 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on PHL to PIT
Republic flew 305 of the 1,227 flights on PHL to PIT, about 25% of it. Its 82.7% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 82.7% to Frontier at 70.6%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 305 | 82.7% | 81 min | 3.61% | B− |
| American Airlines | 626 | 74.6% | 88 min | 2.24% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 192 | 72.3% | 73 min | 4.17% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 104 | 70.6% | 97 min | 1.92% | 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 26 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–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm45 flights95.6%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm38 flights69.4%
- 8pm–5am220 flights82.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 95.6% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 69.4%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 220 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on PHL to PIT through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 2025105 flights84.6%
- Jan–Mar 2026138 flights79.8%
- Apr–Jun 202657 flights85.7%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. 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 82.7% on time across 305 flights.
Quarter by quarter Republic on PHL to PIT held fairly steady: 84.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 79.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 85.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.5%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 4,144 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.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
60% 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 4,144 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 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 4,144 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, 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
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 268 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 89.7% on time across 305 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 305 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 PIT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 294 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to PIT, every carrier
- Republic on PIT to PHL, the return leg
- American Airlines on PHL to PIT74.6%
- PSA Airlines on PHL to PIT72.3%
- Frontier Airlines on PHL to PIT70.6%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 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.