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Carrier route record

YXATL→EWR

Republic Airways · Atlanta to Newark

Flights
119
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
2%
Carriers
5
B−GRADE

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

Republic on ATL to EWR lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.1 hours on average. That rests on 119 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 2,024 at 79.0% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's ATL to EWR record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

81.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights

Avg delay

128 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.36%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

72.3%

Every carrier on ATL to EWR, 6,246 flights

These figures cover 119 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on ATL to EWR

Republic flew 119 of the 6,246 flights on ATL to EWR, about 2% of it. Its 81.7% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 72.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.7% to Frontier at 58.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 79.0% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 58.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 707 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ATL to EWR
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample11981.7%128 min3.36%B−
United Airlines2,02479.0%90 min2.92%B
Delta Air Lines3,03871.5%69 min3.82%C−
Spirit Airlinesthin sample35864.0%72 min7.54%D−
Frontier Airlines70758.5%89 min4.24%D−

Frontier Airlines cancels 4.2% 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.

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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 119 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 81.7% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

Republic on ATL to EWR through the year

  • Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
  • Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
  • Jan–Mar 202636 flights86.1%
  • Apr–Jun 202638 flights92.1%
  • Jul–Sep 202614 flights—

Scale runs 80% 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 81.7% on time across 119 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on ATL to EWR logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 26 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 36 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 38 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 14 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 81.7% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Republic on ATL to EWR runs when it is late

Republic on ATL to EWR often beats the schedule: 45 of 115 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 5 under half an hour, 6 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.

  • 15+ min early45 flights39.1%
  • Within 15 min49 flights42.6%
  • 15–29 min late5 flights4.3%
  • 30–59 min late6 flights5.2%
  • 1–2 hours late6 flights5.2%
  • 2+ hours late4 flights3.5%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 115 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 21 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Republic on ATL to EWR

The latest arrival of the period was on 6 September 2025, 19 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of Republic on ATL to EWR in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
6 September 202519 hours 38 minutesNational Airspace System
20 September 20256 hours 11 minutesNational Airspace System
29 March 20262 hours 36 minutesLate-arriving aircraft
6 June 20262 hours 6 minutesNational Airspace System
19 December 20251 hour 49 minutesNational Airspace System

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

National Airspace System accounts for 78% of the 2,687 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • National Airspace System
    78%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    20%
  • Carrier
    2%

78% 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 2,101 minutes out of 2,687, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,687 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.36%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

8.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

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.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 86.1% on time across 119 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 119 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.36% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 115 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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