DAY to PIE flight delays
Dayton, OH (DAY) St. Petersburg, FL (PIE) · 831 miles
212 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
66.02%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.83%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
140 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
49 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: 2.83% 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. DAY as a whole runs 15.7 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
This is a late route. Flights from Dayton to St. Petersburg miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. PIE to DAY arrives on time 6.7 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over July 2024 – July 2026, Allegiant Air arrived on time most often on DAY to PIE. Flights ran closest to schedule in January and worst in June.
Every airline on DAY to PIE
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air | 212 | 66.02% | 2.83% | 140 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
PIE to DAY St. Petersburg back to Dayton 72.68% on time DCommon questions
Are flights from Dayton to St. Petersburg usually delayed?
66.02% of flights on the DAY to PIE route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Dayton to St. Petersburg?
Only Allegiant Air appears in the published record on this route, with 212 flights and 66.02% arriving on time.
How often are DAY to PIE flights cancelled?
2.83% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 28 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When DAY to PIE flights are late, how late are they?
About 140 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 DAY to PIE during July 2024 – July 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 →