Route profile
PIT→LGA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Pittsburgh to New York, 335 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 29% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 9,401 flights. How this is calculated
PIT → LGA arrives on time 83.6% of the time; the return trip, LGA → PIT, arrives on time 82.3% of the time.
PIT → LGA spends 28.2 minutes on the ground on a 335-mile trip: 19.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PIT and 8.7 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 PIT to LGA differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
PIT to LGA is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 7 PM: 77.6% arrive on time, 5.4 points ahead of the 72.2% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 9.8 points.
PIT to LGA holds up on Sundays better than routes of similar length do: 82.4% on time to their 76.5%, a 5.9 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 7.6 points.
May is kinder to PIT to LGA than to routes of similar length: 84.1% on time against 77.7%, 6.4 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 8.9 points.
PIT to LGA against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 7 PM departures | 77.6% | routes of similar length | 72.2% | +5.4 pts | 576 here, 66,015 there |
| Weekday: Sunday | 82.4% | routes of similar length | 76.5% | +5.9 pts | 1,222 here, 158,320 there |
| Month: May | 84.1% | routes of similar length | 77.7% | +6.4 pts | 787 here, 92,428 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 PIT → LGA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
PIT → LGA cancelled 355 of 9,401 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 26. The reason filed most often was the air traffic system, 42.0% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 63 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 355 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.
149 cancellations, 42.0% of the total.
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
130 cancellations, 36.6% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
76 cancellations, 21.4% 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.
355 coded cancellations were recorded on PIT → LGA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
36 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 9,401 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at LGA after arriving from PIT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 28% | High risk |
| 45 min | 16% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 6.9% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.6% | 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 3.78% of the time and diverts 0.16% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 9,031 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 36 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 9,401 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PIT → LGA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 91.1% of the time, against 75.8% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 15.3 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 93.6% on time from 981 flights
- 7 AM: 91.5% on time from 688 flights
- 8 AM: 88.7% on time from 1,254 flights
- 9 AM: 89.7% on time from 378 flights
- 10 AM: 86.9% on time from 525 flights
- 11 AM: 84.9% on time from 690 flights
- 12 PM: 81.3% on time from 293 flights
- 1 PM: 83.8% on time from 680 flights
- 2 PM: 80.5% on time from 253 flights
- 3 PM: 77.6% on time from 640 flights
- 4 PM: 76.7% on time from 1,156 flights
- 5 PM: 72.8% on time from 786 flights
- 6 PM: 73.4% on time from 352 flights
- 7 PM: 77.6% on time from 622 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why PIT → 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for PIT → LGA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 7,619 | 84.7% | 3.57% | -10 min | 6.1% |
| Endeavor Air | 1,015 | 84.0% | 4.63% | -14 min | 7.9% |
| American Airlines | 401 | 77.7% | 1.50% | -5 min | 11.9% |
Republic Airways flew 84.3% of the 9,035 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.63% of its flights here against 1.50% for American Airlines.
Republic Airways arrived on time 7.0 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.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 7.3 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 82.6%
- Feb: 88.1%
- Mar: 82.4%
- Apr: 86.7%
- May: 84.1%
- Jun: 77.4%
- Jul: 76.1%
- Aug: 84.1%
- Sep: 88.7%
- Oct: 86.6%
- Nov: 87.5%
- Dec: 81.4%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 12.6 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 82.4% from 250 flights
- August 2023: 89.5% from 270 flights
- September 2023: 86.0% from 251 flights
- October 2023: 94.0% from 248 flights
- November 2023: 94.4% from 233 flights
- December 2023: 93.3% from 214 flights
- January 2024: 85.2% from 246 flights
- February 2024: 90.8% from 260 flights
- March 2024: 90.2% from 266 flights
- April 2024: 89.6% from 269 flights
- May 2024: 87.4% from 301 flights
- June 2024: 77.0% from 283 flights
- July 2024: 71.3% from 276 flights
- August 2024: 74.5% from 273 flights
- September 2024: 93.7% from 268 flights
- October 2024: 92.3% from 284 flights
- November 2024: 89.1% from 258 flights
- December 2024: 79.5% from 225 flights
- January 2025: 80.0% from 234 flights
- February 2025: 86.1% from 222 flights
- March 2025: 85.5% from 234 flights
- April 2025: 85.4% from 239 flights
- May 2025: 75.2% from 244 flights
- June 2025: 72.1% from 264 flights
- July 2025: 75.7% from 277 flights
- August 2025: 88.0% from 271 flights
- September 2025: 86.1% from 294 flights
- October 2025: 72.7% from 257 flights
- November 2025: 78.4% from 236 flights
- December 2025: 71.7% from 222 flights
- January 2026: 82.5% from 230 flights
- February 2026: 86.8% from 223 flights
- March 2026: 70.2% from 250 flights
- April 2026: 84.6% from 222 flights
- May 2026: 88.7% from 259 flights
- June 2026: 82.9% from 270 flights
- July 2026: 76.0% from 278 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 80.8% against 82.4% in the 12 months before — declining by 1.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 9,401 PIT → 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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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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