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Route Reliability

Cincinnati → Los Angeles

CVG–LAX · 1,900 miles · Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
6 min
Average arrival delay
1.9%
Cancelled
369
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Delta Air Lines85% on time · 334 flights
  • Allegiant Air46% on time · 35 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

CVG–LAX flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 84% of the time, versus 33% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

CVG–LAX flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 75%.

Trending in the right direction.

CVG–LAX flights arrived on time 88% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(50 flights)
  • Tue80%(54 flights)
  • Wed88%(51 flights)
  • Thu81%(64 flights)
  • Fri78%(51 flights)
  • Sat81%(52 flights)
  • Sun75%(40 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM84%(333 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM—(2 flights)
  • 12–3 PM—(6 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM33%(21 flights)
On-time trend by month
90%
May

Jun 64% → May 90% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202564%33
July 202571%34
August 202583%29
September 202589%26
October 202578%27
November 202593%30
December 202581%36
January 202675%28
February 202679%28
March 202694%31
April 202680%30
May 202690%30

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Based on 369 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.