On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Cleveland-Hopkins International in April 2025

86.3%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 3,413 domestic departures from Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.3% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so CLE departures were 5.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 3,335 departures with 83.3% leaving on time: a change of +3.0 points, with flights up 2%.

Flights arriving at CLE that month were on time 82.0% of the time (3,408 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 33%, national aviation system 32% and air carrier 31%.

Every scheduled departure from CLE in April 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024CLE, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time86.3%83.3%79.3%80.6%
Arrived on time84.3%83.1%77.7%79.5%
Cancelled0.9%0.8%2.3%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.4 min13.6 min16.7 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day11411111119,465
Scheduled departures3,4133,33540,516583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
UA United Airlines69220%91.2%-5.1 min0.3%
YX Republic Airline58217%82.0%1.2 min1.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines56817%78.0%1.8 min1.1%
WN Southwest Airlines43213%86.6%1.7 min0.2%
AA American Airlines35911%79.9%13.8 min1.7%
DL Delta Air Lines2638%90.1%-5.9 min0.4%
OH PSA Airlines1474%78.2%6.8 min2.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines1274%85.8%-0.9 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air1053%86.7%-1.0 min1.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways612%93.4%-13.1 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines471%78.7%1.5 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines301%60.0%9.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CLE–ORDCleveland to Chicago39986.2%0.5 min1.8%
CLE–ATLCleveland to Atlanta24488.9%-6.7 min1.2%
CLE–LGACleveland to New York19082.6%-1.8 min0.5%
CLE–MCOCleveland to Orlando18285.2%-2.3 min0.0%
CLE–DENCleveland to Denver15380.4%6.6 min0.7%
CLE–CLTCleveland to Charlotte15186.1%3.1 min0.0%
CLE–DCACleveland to Washington13778.1%5.3 min2.2%
CLE–BOSCleveland to Boston13394.7%-12.1 min0.0%
CLE–DFWCleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth12967.4%33.5 min3.9%
CLE–FLLCleveland to Fort Lauderdale12085.8%-3.1 min0.0%
CLE–RSWCleveland to Fort Myers12089.2%-8.7 min0.8%
CLE–EWRCleveland to Newark11970.6%18.8 min6.7%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier30.7%32.7%10,746
Late-arriving aircraft32.6%39.4%11,412
National Aviation System31.8%22.2%11,127
Extreme weather5.0%5.5%1,751
Security0.0%0.2%2
35,038 delay minutes on 497 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left CLE on time in April 2025?

86.3% of 3,413 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 83.3% of 3,335 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 86.3% and 0.9% in April 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for CLE · methodology · corrections.