Carrier route record

OOPIT→LGA

SkyWest Airlines · Pittsburgh to New York

Flights: 150
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 5%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on PIT to LGA draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 150 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so SkyWest on PIT to LGA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 114 extra late arrivals.

On time

66.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 139 completed flights

Avg delay

124 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

7.33%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.9%

Every carrier on PIT to LGA, 3,011 flights

These figures cover 150 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.9% 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

SkyWest against every carrier on PIT to LGA

SkyWest flew 150 of the 3,011 flights on PIT to LGA, about 5% of it. Its 66.2% on time is 15 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.7% to SkyWest at 66.2%.

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 PIT to LGA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways	2,861	81.7%	71 min	4.89%	B−
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	150	66.2%	124 min	7.33%	C−

Departure window

When SkyWest runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 150 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's PIT to LGA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 66.2% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on PIT to LGA through the year

Jul–Sep 202581 flights75.7%
Oct–Dec 202569 flights55.4%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. 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 66.2% on time across 150 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on PIT to LGA logged 81 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 69 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 66.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 5,828 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.

National Airspace System
44%
Carrier
44%
Extreme weather
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,828 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,557 of the 5,828 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 7.33%, 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. 20.9% 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.

At 335 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 71.2% on time across 150 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 150 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 SkyWest on PIT to LGA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.33% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two 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. 139 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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