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GVA→EWR

Geneva to Newark

Flights
717 both ways
Carriers
1
Distance
3,868 mi
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
—GRADE

No public record scores Geneva to Newark Liberty International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 717 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about one departure a day in each direction, flown by United. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 69.6% of all departures from Geneva leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 76.4% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 77.4% of EWR's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.

On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Geneva ranks 26th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.

Key figures

Flights

717

Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)

Carriers

1

United Airlines

GVA departures on time

69.6%

All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)

EWR domestic on time

77.4%

US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures

Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 0.8 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Geneva so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from EWR ran a little over an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 3.44% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.

Carrier by carrier

Who flies GVA to EWR

United Airlines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on GVA to EWR, with 717 flights and an average of 135 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

Carriers on GVA to EWR by flights operated
AirlineFlightsSharePer monthPassengers / flight
United Airlines717100%60135

DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.

Across the year

How often GVA to EWR flies through the year

The DOT's international report puts 62 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 54 in February 2026, the thinnest. The schedule is close to flat through the year, which usually means business traffic rather than holiday demand underwrites it.

Flights per month, both directions

  • July 202562
  • August 202562
  • September 202559
  • October 202562
  • November 202557
  • December 202562
  • January 202660
  • February 202654
  • March 202662
  • April 202660
  • May 202660
  • June 202657
Flights in both directions together, as the DOT international report counts them; flights per calendar month.

The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 717 between GVA and EWR from July 2025 to June 2026, about one departure a day in each direction, carrying 96,788 passengers. That makes it the 2nd busiest of 3 US routes from Geneva and the 22nd busiest of 38 European routes into EWR.

The departure airport

How Geneva is running

EUROCONTROL's figures for Geneva as a whole, every airline and every destination: 69.6% of departures and 76.4% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 92.1% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 65.6% for departures, 4 points worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.8 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.2 over the last week.

EUROCONTROL punctuality at Geneva
WindowDepartures on timeArrivals on timeSchedules operatedATFM delay / arrival
Yesterday (21 October 2026)78.5%81.5%88.2%0.0 min
Last 7 days65.6%72.9%90.6%0.2 min
Year to date69.6%76.4%92.1%0.8 min

Every US route from Geneva, and its full punctuality record

The arrival airport

Landing at Newark Liberty International

Newark Liberty International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 77.4% of its 122,267 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 3.44% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at EWR reaches a flight from GVA just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

Domestic on time

77.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)

Avg delay

79 min

Delayed domestic flights only

Cancelled

3.44%

Domestic departures

122,267

Last twelve months

Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Your rights

EC 261/2004 on GVA to EWR

Every flight that departs Geneva falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Newark Liberty International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from EWR is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 3,868 miles, 6,224 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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What to do with this

Booking GVA to EWR

There is no grade to give GVA to EWR without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about one departure a day in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 70% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 77% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at EWR; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

Common questions

GVA to EWR questions

How often are GVA to EWR flights delayed?

No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (69.6% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and EWR's domestic record in the DOT data (77.4% on time).

Which airlines fly GVA to EWR?

United Airlines. United Airlines accounted for 100% of the 717 flights the DOT counted on the pair.

Can I claim compensation for a delayed GVA to EWR flight?

Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Geneva are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from EWR is covered only on an EU carrier.

How many flights a day are there from GVA to EWR?

About one departure a day in each direction: the DOT counted 717 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 62 in July 2025 and falling to 54 in February 2026.

Related

Where to go next

Switzerland publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.

Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.