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Route Reliability

New York → LEX

LGA–LEX · 604 miles · LaGuardia Airport to LEX Airport

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WanderNerd Reliability Score
63%
Arrive within 15 minutes
28 min
Average arrival delay
7.8%
Cancelled
306
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 63% of the time across 306 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

LGA–LEX flights arrived on time 68% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 56%.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 7.8% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Recent months have been rougher.

LGA–LEX flights arrived on time 58% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 76% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon61%(44 flights)
  • Tue63%(48 flights)
  • Wed68%(47 flights)
  • Thu63%(43 flights)
  • Fri68%(47 flights)
  • Sat—(9 flights)
  • Sun56%(43 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 PM—(4 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(4 flights)
  • 6–9 PM63%(272 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
67%
May

Jun 46% → May 67% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202546%24
July 202548%21
August 202577%26
September 202565%26
October 202564%25
November 202557%21
December 202547%15
January 202695%20
February 202686%22
March 202663%24
April 202644%27
May 202667%30

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Based on 306 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.