Carrier route record
YXPIT→LGA
Republic Airways · Pittsburgh to New York
- Flights
- 2,861
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 95%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on PIT to LGA carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,861 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's PIT to LGA record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 41 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,720 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.89%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on PIT to LGA, 3,011 flights
These figures cover 2,861 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 PIT to LGA
Republic flew 2,861 of the 3,011 flights on PIT to LGA, most of the route. Its 81.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.7% to SkyWest at 66.2%. One 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) | 2,861 | 81.7% | 71 min | 4.89% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 150 | 66.2% | 124 min | 7.33% | C− |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on PIT to LGA
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 25 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–8am614 flights93.3%
- 8am–11am705 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm497 flights81.0%
- 2pm–5pm476 flights73.9%
- 5pm–8pm569 flights68.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.3% of the time, against 68.3% for the evening window. That is 25 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 705 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on PIT to LGA through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 70.2%. August is the strongest month at 88.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 19 points. June was the busiest month here, with 270 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 87.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.2%. 11 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. National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 35,000 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.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
51% 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 18,000 minutes out of 35,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 35,461 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.89%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
7.7% 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 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 79.4% on time across 2,863 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,861 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 LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.89% 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. 2,720 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PIT to LGA, every carrier
- Republic on LGA to PIT, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on PIT to LGA66.2%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.