Route profile
LGA→PIT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from New York to Pittsburgh, 335 miles.
Right now
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Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 28% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 9,395 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
LGA → PIT arrives on time 82.3% of the time; the return trip, PIT → LGA, arrives on time 83.6% of the time.
LGA → PIT spends 32.0 minutes on the ground on a 335-mile trip: 24.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at LGA and 7.7 minutes from touchdown to gate at PIT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where LGA to PIT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
LGA to PIT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 8 PM: 82.2% arrive on time, 11.1 points ahead of the 71.1% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 14.8 points.
LGA to PIT struggles most at 9 AM: 84.3% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 2.9 points behind the 87.2% on routes of similar length at the same hour.
LGA to PIT holds up on Mondays better than routes of similar length do: 83.3% on time to their 79.2%, a 4.1 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 6.1 points.
September is kinder to LGA to PIT than to routes of similar length: 87.9% on time against 83.3%, 4.6 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 5.6 points.
LGA to PIT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 8 PM departures | 82.2% | routes of similar length | 71.1% | +11.1 pts | 129 here, 61,418 there |
| Hour: 9 AM departures | 84.3% | routes of similar length | 87.2% | −2.9 pts | 683 here, 60,646 there |
| Weekday: Monday | 83.3% | routes of similar length | 79.2% | +4.1 pts | 1,432 here, 164,563 there |
| Month: September | 87.9% | routes of similar length | 83.3% | +4.6 pts | 786 here, 90,263 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 335 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 LGA → PIT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
LGA → PIT cancelled 344 of 9,395 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 27. The reason filed most often was the air traffic system, 41.3% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 66 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 344 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.
142 cancellations, 41.3% of the total.
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
115 cancellations, 33.4% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
87 cancellations, 25.3% 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.
344 coded cancellations were recorded on LGA → PIT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
45 min late
against a median of 13 min early
Percentiles over 9,395 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at PIT after arriving from LGA.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 28% | High risk |
| 45 min | 17% | High risk |
| 60 min | 13% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.8% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.0% | 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 3.66% of the time and diverts 0.07% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 9,044 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 45 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 9,395 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
LGA → PIT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 89.8% of the time, against 76.2% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 13.6 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 92.0% on time from 385 flights
- 7 AM: 88.0% on time from 266 flights
- 8 AM: 89.3% on time from 650 flights
- 9 AM: 84.3% on time from 701 flights
- 10 AM: 87.5% on time from 993 flights
- 11 AM: 89.3% on time from 445 flights
- 12 PM: 77.9% on time from 313 flights
- 1 PM: 83.2% on time from 885 flights
- 2 PM: 80.5% on time from 549 flights
- 3 PM: 74.7% on time from 359 flights
- 4 PM: 78.9% on time from 791 flights
- 5 PM: 78.6% on time from 221 flights
- 6 PM: 75.8% on time from 811 flights
- 7 PM: 80.7% on time from 999 flights
- 8 PM: 82.2% on time from 140 flights
- 9 PM: 75.4% on time from 749 flights
- 10 PM: 80.3% on time from 138 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why LGA → PIT runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 LGA → PIT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on LGA → PIT, at 45.1%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 89.8% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 76.2%.
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 | 7,612 | 82.5% | 3.61% | -13 min | 7.8% |
| Endeavor Air | 1,015 | 85.6% | 4.53% | -15 min | 5.4% |
| American Airlines | 402 | 80.3% | 1.24% | -10 min | 12.4% |
Republic Airways flew 84.3% of the 9,029 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.53% of its flights here against 1.24% for American Airlines.
Endeavor Air arrived on time 5.3 percentage points more often than American Airlines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| YX5722 Republic Airways | 9:20 PM | 653 | 74.7% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 7.6 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 81.9%
- Feb: 85.5%
- Mar: 82.7%
- Apr: 82.6%
- May: 80.4%
- Jun: 79.2%
- Jul: 74.1%
- Aug: 83.7%
- Sep: 87.9%
- Oct: 86.9%
- Nov: 85.1%
- Dec: 80.3%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 13.8 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 76.5% from 250 flights
- August 2023: 90.2% from 269 flights
- September 2023: 84.8% from 251 flights
- October 2023: 90.7% from 248 flights
- November 2023: 92.7% from 232 flights
- December 2023: 90.5% from 213 flights
- January 2024: 79.3% from 246 flights
- February 2024: 91.3% from 261 flights
- March 2024: 88.7% from 266 flights
- April 2024: 84.2% from 268 flights
- May 2024: 82.3% from 301 flights
- June 2024: 80.0% from 283 flights
- July 2024: 74.7% from 276 flights
- August 2024: 72.9% from 273 flights
- September 2024: 93.2% from 266 flights
- October 2024: 95.4% from 284 flights
- November 2024: 91.1% from 258 flights
- December 2024: 83.6% from 225 flights
- January 2025: 85.7% from 235 flights
- February 2025: 80.2% from 222 flights
- March 2025: 83.0% from 234 flights
- April 2025: 83.2% from 238 flights
- May 2025: 73.3% from 243 flights
- June 2025: 70.9% from 263 flights
- July 2025: 70.0% from 277 flights
- August 2025: 87.3% from 271 flights
- September 2025: 85.5% from 294 flights
- October 2025: 73.6% from 258 flights
- November 2025: 70.9% from 236 flights
- December 2025: 66.7% from 221 flights
- January 2026: 80.6% from 231 flights
- February 2026: 83.7% from 224 flights
- March 2026: 75.2% from 250 flights
- April 2026: 80.1% from 222 flights
- May 2026: 84.7% from 259 flights
- June 2026: 86.4% from 270 flights
- July 2026: 75.7% from 277 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 79.5% against 81.9% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.4 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 9,395 LGA → PIT 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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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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