Flights Cleveland → St. Louis
CLE → STL
Route overview
The flight route from Cleveland to St. Louis operates with an Embraer RJ145 aircraft and has a 75% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of eleven minutes when it does experience delays. Over the past year, this route has seen 166 total flights, connecting two cities served by airports that have been operational since 1925 for Cleveland and handle over thirteen million passengers annually for St. Louis.
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) → St. Louis (STL) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 224 flights monitored in recent months, 74% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 11 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.34%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to St. Louis: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Cleveland (CLE) to St. Louis (STL) heads west for about 783 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 24m.
Departures from Cleveland on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 51% of CLE-STL flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into St. Louis it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 224 tracked CLE-STL flights, 74% left on time with an average delay of 11 min and a 1.3% 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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Frequently asked questions about CLE-STL
On the Cleveland (CLE) -> St. Louis (STL) route, on-time performance is 74% with an average delay of 11 minutes, based on 224 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Cleveland-St. Louis is 1.34% across 224 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.
