PBI to LGA flight delays
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL (PBI) New York, NY (LGA) · 1,035 miles
3,199 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
68.75%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.53%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
80 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
26 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Delta Air Lines arrived on time 14.5 points more often than American Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.53% 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 season swings this route hard. In September it ran 33.4 points more punctual than in March — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
Flights from West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Delta Air Lines arrived on time most often on PBI to LGA. American Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in September and worst in March.
Every airline on PBI to LGA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,553 | 72.4% | 4.44% | 66 min | D |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,115 | 67.74% | 4.66% | 83 min | F |
| American Airlines | 405 | 57.88% | 4.2% | 97 min | F |
| Republic Airways | 126 | 67.8% | 5.56% | 125 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
Common questions
Are flights from West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York usually delayed?
68.75% of flights on the PBI to LGA 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 airline is most on time from West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York?
Delta Air Lines, at 72.4% on time across 1,553 flights. The least punctual on the route was American Airlines at 57.88%.
How often are PBI to LGA flights cancelled?
4.53% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 45 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York?
September, when 86.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 53.1%.
When PBI to LGA flights are late, how late are they?
About 80 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 PBI to LGA during January 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 →