Route profile

PITRDU

Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Pittsburgh to Raleigh–Durham. · 328 miles

Right now

Current conditions at both ends of this route.

Origin · PITNo disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Pittsburgh airport profile →

Destination · RDUNo disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Raleigh–Durham airport profile →

Airport conditions describe the airfield, not any individual flight. An airport operating normally is not a guarantee that a specific flight will depart on time.

Route reliability

July 2023 – June 2026

Route Reliability Score
85/ 100Strong

Better than 94% of comparable major US routes (4,577 compared)

Calculated from 2,142 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals
88.4%
1,867 of 2,113
Cancellation rate
1.21%
26 cancelled
Median arrival delay
-11 min
Average -3.2 min
Severe delays
3.5%
60+ minutes late
Delay when late
59 min
Average, when 15+ min late
Flights analysed
2,142
1 carrier

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – June 2026

Airlines on this route

Performance by the carrier that actually operated the flight.

CarrierFlightsOn timeCancelledMedian delaySevere
Republic Airways2,04089.2%0.93%-11 min3.1%

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 200 flights on this route are not listed.

Individual flights on this route

The same route is not equally reliable at every hour. These are the flight numbers with enough operating history to judge separately.

FlightScheduledOperationsOn time
YX4531 Republic Airways6:00 AM80794.9%
YX4514 Republic Airways5:15 PM36279.8%

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Flight numbers with fewer than 270 operations on this route, or no longer scheduled, are not listed.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon88.6%
Tue89.4%
Wed90.9%
Thu88.7%
Fri86.7%
Sat89.3%
Sun85.0%

Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 5.9 percentage points.

By month

July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 16.3 percentage points.

Historical trend

On-time arrival rate by month.

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-07 to 2026-06), on-time arrivals averaged 85.4% against 88.2% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.7 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026

Data and methodology

All figures on this page are calculated by FlyerIntel from 2,142 PITRDU flight records published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – June 2026. A flight is counted as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after its scheduled arrival time, following BTS methodology. Cancelled and diverted flights have no arrival time and are excluded from on-time rates rather than counted as late.

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