Flights Cleveland → Detroit
CLE → DTW
Route overview
The flight route from Cleveland to Detroit has a 77% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 19.4 minutes when flights are not on time. Over the past year, there have been 432 total flights on this route, connecting passengers from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which opened in 1925, to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, one of the busiest airports in the United States with over 28 million passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Cleveland (CLE) → Detroit (DTW) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 524 flights monitored in recent months, 77% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 20 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.57%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 29.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Detroit the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Detroit: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Cleveland (CLE) to Detroit (DTW) heads north-west for about 153 km, a flight time of roughly 37m.
Departures from Cleveland on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 48% of CLE-DTW flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Detroit it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 524 tracked CLE-DTW flights, 77% left on time with an average delay of 20 min and a 0.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
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Frequently asked questions about CLE-DTW
On the Cleveland (CLE) -> Detroit (DTW) route, on-time performance is 77% with an average delay of 20 minutes, based on 524 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Cleveland-Detroit is 0.57% across 524 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
