Carrier route record
YXPIT→JFK
Republic Airways · Pittsburgh to New York
- Flights
- 1,310
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 74%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on PIT to JFK carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.6% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, more than four flights in five arrive on time, worth an A− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,310 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's PIT to JFK record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,259 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.59%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
85.9%
Every carrier on PIT to JFK, 1,764 flights
These figures cover 1,310 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on PIT to JFK
Republic flew 1,310 of the 1,764 flights on PIT to JFK, most of the route. Its 86.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 85.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 86.8% to JetBlue at 83.3%.
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) | 1,310 | 86.8% | 78 min | 3.59% | A− |
| JetBlue Airways | 454 | 83.3% | 82 min | 7.49% | B− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on PIT to JFK
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am446 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am288 flights89.5%
- 11am–2pm390 flights82.1%
- 2pm–5pm4 flights—
- 5pm–8pm137 flights76.2%
- 8pm–5am45 flights90.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 76.2% for the evening window. That is 16 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 446 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on PIT to JFK through the year
December is the weak month at 73.1% on time, against 92.9% in November. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.6%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on PIT to JFK runs when it is late
Republic on PIT to JFK often beats the schedule: 487 of 1,259 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 166 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 40 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 70 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early487 flights38.7%
- Within 15 min606 flights48.1%
- 15–29 min late56 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late40 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late41 flights3.3%
- 2+ hours late29 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,259 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 157 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 37 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on PIT to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 10 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across August, December, February and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 10 hours 22 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 14 December 2025 | 9 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 February 2026 | 6 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 September 2025 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 4 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 13,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 33%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 4,750 minutes out of 13,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 12,991 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.9% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.59%, against 1.89% 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
5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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 340 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.3% on time across 1,310 flights, 11 points below 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 11 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,310 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking Republic on PIT to JFK
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.59% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,259 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PIT to JFK, every carrier
- Republic on JFK to PIT, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on PIT to JFK83.3%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.