Flights St. Louis → Pittsburgh
STL → PIT
Route overview
The flight route from St. Louis to Pittsburgh operates with an Embraer RJ145 aircraft and has a 74% on-time performance rate, with an average delay of 12.8 minutes when flights are not on time. The destination airport in Pittsburgh, which opened in 1944, 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) → Pittsburgh (PIT) route is operated by American Airlines. Across 168 flights monitored in recent months, 74% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 13 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 25.1/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh: what to expect in this direction
Flying from St. Louis (STL) to Pittsburgh (PIT) heads east for about 889 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 32m.
Departures from St. Louis on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 41% of STL-PIT flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Pittsburgh it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 168 tracked STL-PIT flights, 74% left on time with an average delay of 13 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about STL-PIT
On the St. Louis (STL) -> Pittsburgh (PIT) route, on-time performance is 74% with an average delay of 13 minutes, based on 168 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on St. Louis-Pittsburgh is 0.00% across 168 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: American 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.
