CLE to PHL flight delays
Cleveland, OH (CLE) Philadelphia, PA (PHL) · 363 miles
60 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
78.95%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
5%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
115 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
25 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 5% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 115 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
The Cleveland to Philadelphia route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.
Every airline on CLE to PHL
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 30 | 64.29% | 6.67% | 127 min | — |
| American Airlines | 29 | 92.86% | 3.45% | 57 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 1 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
The return leg
PHL to CLE Philadelphia back to Cleveland 74.14% on time —Other routes from Cleveland
Common questions
Are flights from Cleveland to Philadelphia usually delayed?
78.95% of flights on the CLE to PHL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
How often are CLE to PHL flights cancelled?
5% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 50 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When CLE to PHL flights are late, how late are they?
About 115 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on CLE to PHL during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →