Carrier route record

YXATL→EWR

Republic Airways · Atlanta to Newark

Flights: 139
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 2%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on ATL to EWR lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 139 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 1,963 at 79.5% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on ATL to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

80.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 136 completed flights

Avg delay

125 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.16%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

72.8%

Every carrier on ATL to EWR, 6,285 flights

These figures cover 139 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on ATL to EWR

Republic flew 139 of the 6,285 flights on ATL to EWR, about 2% of it. Its 80.1% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.1% to Frontier at 62.4%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 79.5% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 62.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 708 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ATL to EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	139	80.1%	125 min	2.16%	B
United Airlines	1,963	79.5%	83 min	3.06%	B−
Delta Air Lines	3,055	71.5%	66 min	3.31%	C−
Spirit Airlines	420	66.3%	71 min	6.67%	C−
Frontier Airlines	708	62.4%	84 min	2.54%	D

Spirit Airlines cancels 6.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Departure window

When Republic runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 139 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Republic's ATL to EWR record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 80.1% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Republic on ATL to EWR through the year

Jul–Sep 202539 flights67.6%
Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
Jan–Mar 202636 flights86.1%
Apr–Jun 202638 flights92.1%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 80.1% on time across 139 flights.

Republic on ATL to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 92.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 67.6%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 46 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 83% of the 3,377 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

National Airspace System
83%
Late-arriving aircraft
13%
Carrier
3%
Extreme weather
1%

83% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,819 minutes out of 3,377, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,377 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 2.16% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

The 746 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.0% on time across 139 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 139 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Republic on ATL to EWR

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 139 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 80.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 136 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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