Flights St. Louis → Cleveland
STL → CLE
Route overview
The flight route from St. Louis to Cleveland operates with an Embraer RJ145 aircraft and has a high on-time performance rate of 80%, with an average delay of 8.7 minutes per flight. Over the past year, this route has seen 166 flights, serving a destination airport that opened in 1925 and currently handles over eight 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 St. Louis (STL) → Cleveland (CLE) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 224 flights monitored in recent months, 76% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.79%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Cleveland the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Cleveland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from St. Louis (STL) to Cleveland (CLE) heads north-east for about 783 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 24m.
Departures from St. Louis on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 48% of STL-CLE flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Cleveland it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 224 tracked STL-CLE flights, 76% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 1.8% 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 STL-CLE
On the St. Louis (STL) -> Cleveland (CLE) route, on-time performance is 76% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 224 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on St. Louis-Cleveland is 1.79% 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.
