Flights West Palm Beach → Cleveland
PBI → CLE
Route overview
The flight route from West Palm Beach to Cleveland has a relatively low on-time performance rate of 64%, with an average delay time of 34.3 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been eleven flights on this route, and it terminates at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which 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 West Palm Beach (PBI) → Cleveland (CLE) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 11 flights monitored in recent months, 64% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 34 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 13.2/100 (low), 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 West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Cleveland: what to expect in this direction
Flying from West Palm Beach (PBI) to Cleveland (CLE) heads north for about 1,646 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 29m.
Departures from West Palm Beach on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 100% of PBI-CLE flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Cleveland it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 11 tracked PBI-CLE flights, 64% left on time with an average delay of 34 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
Route facts
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
Airlines operating PBI-CLE
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Frequently asked questions about PBI-CLE
On the West Palm Beach (PBI) -> Cleveland (CLE) route, on-time performance is 64% with an average delay of 34 minutes, based on 11 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on West Palm Beach-Cleveland is 0.00% across 11 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.
