Flights Cleveland → San Francisco
CLE → SFO
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) → San Francisco (SFO) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 120 flights monitored in recent months, 94% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 1 minutes. The cancellation rate is 7.50%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 10.7/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At San Francisco the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to San Francisco: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Cleveland (CLE) to San Francisco (SFO) heads west for about 3,470 km, a flight time of roughly 4h 45m.
Departures from Cleveland on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 100% of CLE-SFO flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into San Francisco it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 120 tracked CLE-SFO flights, 94% left on time with an average delay of 1 min and a 7.5% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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On the Cleveland (CLE) -> San Francisco (SFO) route, on-time performance is 94% with an average delay of 1 minutes, based on 120 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Cleveland-San Francisco is 7.50% across 120 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United Airlines.
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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.
