Route profile
LAS→CLE
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Las Vegas to Cleveland, 1,824 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 50% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 3,003 flights. How this is calculated
LAS → CLE arrives on time 77.4% of the time; the return trip, CLE → LAS, arrives on time 75.3% of the time, a 2.1-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
LAS → CLE spends 29.3 minutes on the ground on a 1,824-mile trip: 18.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at LAS and 10.8 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLE.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
Which day you fly matters unusually much here, a wider weekday spread than 98% of 4,467 comparable routes.
86.4% on time on a typical Saturday, against 69.3% on a Sunday.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,467 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where LAS to CLE differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
LAS to CLE struggles most at 12 AM: 65.1% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 14.7 points behind the 79.8% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 16.6 points.
LAS to CLE is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 1 PM: 81.8% arrive on time, 7.7 points ahead of the 74.1% those routes manage at that hour.
LAS to CLE holds up on Saturdays better than routes of similar length do: 86.4% on time to their 78.5%, a 7.9 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 7.3 points.
In July, LAS to CLE runs 9 points below routes of similar length, 60.8% on time to 69.8%. Against all other routes the gap is 8.9 points.
Frontier Airlines does better on LAS to CLE than on its routes of similar length: 76.8% on time here, 67.1% there, 9.7 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 5.6 points.
LAS to CLE against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 12 AM departures | 65.1% | routes of similar length | 79.8% | −14.7 pts | 129 here, 11,272 there |
| Hour: 1 PM departures | 81.8% | routes of similar length | 74.1% | +7.7 pts | 154 here, 63,397 there |
| Weekday: Saturday | 86.4% | routes of similar length | 78.5% | +7.9 pts | 455 here, 167,141 there |
| Month: July | 60.8% | routes of similar length | 69.8% | −9.0 pts | 337 here, 146,468 there |
| Airline: Frontier Airlines | 76.8% | routes of similar length | 67.1% | +9.7 pts | 1,916 here, 39,266 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 1,824 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.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
43 min late
against a median of 5 min early
Percentiles over 3,003 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at CLE after arriving from LAS.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 39% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 22% | High risk |
| 60 min | 14% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.0% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 3.7% | Low 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 1.07% of the time and diverts 0.23% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 2,964 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 43 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 3,003 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
LAS → CLE flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.6% of the time, against 61.3% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 25.3 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM: 65.1% on time from 136 flights
- 1 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.4% on time from 177 flights
- 7 AM: too few flights to score
- 8 AM: 80.3% on time from 225 flights
- 9 AM: too few flights to score
- 10 AM: 82.6% on time from 308 flights
- 11 AM: 78.5% on time from 243 flights
- 12 PM: 68.7% on time from 244 flights
- 1 PM: 81.8% on time from 156 flights
- 2 PM to 9 PM: too few flights to score
- 10 PM: 72.5% on time from 173 flights
- 11 PM: 77.6% on time from 784 flights
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why LAS → CLE runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for LAS → CLE. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlines | 1,953 | 76.8% | 1.59% | -6 min | 8.5% |
| Southwest Airlines | 747 | 76.3% | 0.00% | -1 min | 4.0% |
| Spirit Airlines | 239 | 81.9% | 0.42% | -5 min | 6.3% |
Frontier Airlines flew 66.5% of the 2,939 flights listed. Frontier Airlines cancelled 1.59% of its flights here against 0.00% for Southwest Airlines.
Spirit Airlines arrived on time 5.6 percentage points more often than Southwest Airlines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 17.1 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 78.8%
- Feb: 83.2%
- Mar: 77.7%
- Apr: 81.9%
- May: 76.9%
- Jun: 66.5%
- Jul: 60.8%
- Aug: 76.4%
- Sep: 84.2%
- Oct: 80.1%
- Nov: 87.2%
- Dec: 82.9%
July is historically the weakest month and November the strongest, a spread of 26.4 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: too few flights to score (102)
- August 2023: too few flights to score (83)
- September 2023: too few flights to score (68)
- October 2023: too few flights to score (98)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (75)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (57)
- January 2024: too few flights to score (38)
- February 2024: too few flights to score (61)
- March 2024: 82.8% from 122 flights
- April 2024: too few flights to score (93)
- May 2024: too few flights to score (83)
- June 2024: too few flights to score (68)
- July 2024: too few flights to score (70)
- August 2024: too few flights to score (55)
- September 2024: too few flights to score (79)
- October 2024: too few flights to score (82)
- November 2024: too few flights to score (80)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (79)
- January 2025: too few flights to score (88)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (82)
- March 2025: too few flights to score (97)
- April 2025: too few flights to score (91)
- May 2025: too few flights to score (93)
- June 2025: too few flights to score (83)
- July 2025: too few flights to score (83)
- August 2025: too few flights to score (83)
- September 2025: too few flights to score (76)
- October 2025: too few flights to score (83)
- November 2025: too few flights to score (87)
- December 2025: too few flights to score (77)
- January 2026: too few flights to score (67)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (63)
- March 2026: too few flights to score (93)
- April 2026: too few flights to score (90)
- May 2026: too few flights to score (92)
- June 2026: too few flights to score (90)
- July 2026: too few flights to score (92)
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 73.9% against 81.0% in the 12 months before — declining by 7.1 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 3,003 LAS → CLE 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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