Route profile
CLE→LGA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Cleveland to New York, 419 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 19% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 6,944 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CLE → LGA arrives on time 81.8% of the time; the return trip, LGA → CLE, arrives on time 80.3% of the time.
CLE → LGA spends 28.1 minutes on the ground on a 419-mile trip: 19.0 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CLE and 9.1 minutes from touchdown to gate at LGA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CLE to LGA differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CLE to LGA struggles most at 6 PM: 60.0% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 9 points behind the 69.0% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 8.6 points.
CLE to LGA is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 3 PM: 81.8% arrive on time, 8.4 points ahead of the 73.4% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.1 points.
CLE to LGA holds up on Saturdays better than routes of similar length do: 86.5% on time to their 80.7%, a 5.8 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 7.4 points.
September is kinder to CLE to LGA than to routes of similar length: 88.0% on time against 82.3%, 5.7 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 5.6 points.
Endeavor Air does better on CLE to LGA than on its routes of similar length: 84.9% on time here, 82.8% there, 2.1 points apart.
CLE to LGA against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 6 PM departures | 60.0% | routes of similar length | 69.0% | −9.0 pts | 255 here, 90,277 there |
| Hour: 3 PM departures | 81.8% | routes of similar length | 73.4% | +8.4 pts | 594 here, 97,531 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 86.5% | routes of similar length | 80.7% | +5.8 pts | 482 here, 185,103 there |
| Month: September | 88.0% | routes of similar length | 82.3% | +5.7 pts | 577 here, 129,115 there |
| Airline: Endeavor Air | 84.9% | routes of similar length | 82.8% | +2.1 pts | 1,685 here, 21,440 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 419 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why CLE → LGA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
CLE → LGA cancelled 288 of 6,944 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 24. The reason filed most often was the air traffic system, 47.2% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 51 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 288 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
136 cancellations, 47.2% of the total.
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
126 cancellations, 43.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
26 cancellations, 9.0% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
288 coded cancellations were recorded on CLE → LGA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
44 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 6,944 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at LGA after arriving from CLE.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 30% | High risk |
| 45 min | 18% | High risk |
| 60 min | 13% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.8% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.4% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 4.15% of the time and diverts 0.24% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 6,639 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 44 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 6,944 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
CLE → LGA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 90.4% of the time, against 69.7% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 20.7 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 90.7% on time from 1,207 flights
- 7 AM: too few flights to score
- 8 AM: 89.0% on time from 165 flights
- 9 AM: 90.6% on time from 382 flights
- 10 AM: 87.6% on time from 349 flights
- 11 AM: 86.2% on time from 203 flights
- 12 PM: 86.1% on time from 553 flights
- 1 PM: 76.9% on time from 978 flights
- 2 PM: 75.4% on time from 561 flights
- 3 PM: 81.8% on time from 633 flights
- 4 PM: 77.2% on time from 284 flights
- 5 PM: 76.6% on time from 524 flights
- 6 PM: 60.0% on time from 288 flights
- 7 PM: 72.8% on time from 488 flights
- 8 PM: 79.0% on time from 122 flights
- 9 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why CLE → LGA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CLE → LGA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 4,280 | 82.1% | 4.28% | -9 min | 7.2% |
| Endeavor Air | 1,765 | 84.9% | 4.36% | -16 min | 7.8% |
| Frontier Airlines | 572 | 69.8% | 4.20% | -5 min | 13.7% |
| SkyWest Airlines | 327 | 82.0% | 1.22% | -10 min | 8.4% |
Republic Airways flew 61.6% of the 6,944 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.36% of its flights here against 1.22% for SkyWest Airlines.
Endeavor Air arrived on time 15.1 percentage points more often than Frontier Airlines on this route.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.2 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 77.5%
- Feb: 84.7%
- Mar: 83.3%
- Apr: 83.3%
- May: 78.0%
- Jun: 76.5%
- Jul: 73.7%
- Aug: 82.5%
- Sep: 88.0%
- Oct: 87.1%
- Nov: 86.6%
- Dec: 78.4%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 14.3 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 80.4% from 204 flights
- August 2023: 86.9% from 220 flights
- September 2023: 80.5% from 204 flights
- October 2023: 93.6% from 218 flights
- November 2023: 94.6% from 205 flights
- December 2023: 88.0% from 186 flights
- January 2024: 82.0% from 200 flights
- February 2024: 89.2% from 204 flights
- March 2024: 88.3% from 213 flights
- April 2024: 87.8% from 233 flights
- May 2024: 78.2% from 250 flights
- June 2024: 78.4% from 235 flights
- July 2024: 73.3% from 250 flights
- August 2024: 80.6% from 246 flights
- September 2024: 93.7% from 239 flights
- October 2024: 94.4% from 251 flights
- November 2024: 91.2% from 239 flights
- December 2024: 77.5% from 222 flights
- January 2025: 75.0% from 145 flights
- February 2025: 80.1% from 148 flights
- March 2025: 83.5% from 185 flights
- April 2025: 83.1% from 190 flights
- May 2025: 71.4% from 187 flights
- June 2025: 71.9% from 140 flights
- July 2025: 65.2% from 134 flights
- August 2025: 78.0% from 121 flights
- September 2025: 88.3% from 157 flights
- October 2025: 71.2% from 212 flights
- November 2025: 72.4% from 198 flights
- December 2025: 68.6% from 172 flights
- January 2026: 73.3% from 135 flights
- February 2026: 82.5% from 124 flights
- March 2026: too few flights to score (117)
- April 2026: 77.1% from 159 flights
- May 2026: 84.3% from 185 flights
- June 2026: too few flights to score (112)
- July 2026: too few flights to score (104)
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 76.4% against 82.1% in the 12 months before — declining by 5.7 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 6,944 CLE → LGA flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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