Carrier route record
UACLE→EWR
United Airlines · Cleveland to Newark
- Flights
- 1,444
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 67%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on CLE to EWR lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,444 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on CLE to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,405 completed flights
Avg delay
107 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.49%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.1%
Every carrier on CLE to EWR, 2,162 flights
These figures cover 1,444 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on CLE to EWR
United flew 1,444 of the 2,162 flights on CLE to EWR, most of the route. Its 79.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 80.7% to United at 79.8%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 718 | 80.7% | 63 min | 6.55% | B− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 1,444 | 79.8% | 107 min | 2.49% | B |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on CLE to EWR
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 38 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am363 flights92.7%
- 8am–11am355 flights89.9%
- 11am–2pm288 flights81.3%
- 2pm–5pm147 flights69.4%
- 5pm–8pm291 flights54.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.7% on time, against 92.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on CLE to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 66.4% on time, 30 points below February, the best at 96.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. September was the busiest month here, with 165 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 76.0%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on CLE to EWR runs when it is late
United on CLE to EWR often beats the schedule: 409 of 1,405 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When United on CLE to EWR is late it tends to be very late: 144 of its 284 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 78 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early409 flights29.1%
- Within 15 min712 flights50.7%
- 15–29 min late84 flights6.0%
- 30–59 min late56 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late66 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late78 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,405 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 224 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 16 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 76 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for United on CLE to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 September 2025, 18 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2025 | 18 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 16 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 10 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 September 2025 | 8 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 January 2026 | 8 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
55% 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 17,000 minutes out of 30,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 30,239 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.49% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.21%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 404 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.4% on time across 1,445 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,444 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking United on CLE to EWR
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 96.1% on time and July 66.4%, a swing of 30 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,405 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to CLE, the return leg
- Republic Airways on CLE to EWR80.7%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.