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Route Reliability

Pittsburgh → Denver

PITDEN · 1,290 miles · Pittsburgh International Airport to Denver International Airport

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
1,729
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.United Airlines87%905 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines76%766 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (58 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

PIT–DEN flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 60% between 6–9 PM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

PIT–DEN flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Sundays. On Thursdays: 78%.

United Airlines runs this route best.

United Airlines arrived on time 87% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 76%.

Ticking up lately.

PIT–DEN flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 80% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon84%(274 flights)
  • Tue82%(239 flights)
  • Wed85%(237 flights)
  • Thu78%(240 flights)
  • Fri78%(271 flights)
  • Sat79%(212 flights)
  • Sun86%(238 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM94%(205 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(418 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM94%(249 flights)
  • 12–3 PM68%(74 flights)
  • 3–6 PM76%(499 flights)
  • 6–9 PM60%(266 flights)
On-time trend by month
78%
May

Jun 68% → May 78% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202568%168
July 202574%181
August 202578%175
September 202586%167
October 202590%177
November 202594%158
December 202574%138
January 202683%103
February 202684%92
March 202682%117
April 202692%117
May 202678%118

Based on 1,729 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.