Carrier route record
YXCLE→EWR
Republic Airways · Cleveland to Newark
- Flights
- 718
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 33%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 718 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic 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
80.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 670 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.55%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.1%
Every carrier on CLE to EWR, 2,162 flights
These figures cover 718 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on CLE to EWR
Republic flew 718 of the 2,162 flights on CLE to EWR, about 33% of it. Its 80.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first 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 (this page) | 718 | 80.7% | 63 min | 6.55% | B− |
| United Airlines | 1,444 | 79.8% | 107 min | 2.49% | B |
Flight by flight
Republic flight numbers on CLE to EWR
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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 718 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm146 flights81.5%
- 2pm–5pm256 flights78.4%
- 5pm–8pm313 flights82.2%
- 8pm–5am3 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 82.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Republic on CLE to EWR through the year
December is the weak month at 65.8% on time, against 90.8% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. January was the busiest month here, with 98 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.8%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on CLE to EWR runs when it is late
Republic on CLE to EWR often beats the schedule: 271 of 670 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 129 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 47 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early271 flights40.4%
- Within 15 min270 flights40.3%
- 15–29 min late43 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late39 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late17 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 670 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 108 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. In the other direction, 44 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 Republic on CLE to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 July 2026, 4 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 July 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 2 November 2025 | 3 hours 41 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 January 2026 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 July 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 59% of the 8,113 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
59% 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 4,795 minutes out of 8,113, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 8,113 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.55%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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
7.0% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.7% on time across 718 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 718 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 CLE to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.55% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 670 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLE to EWR, every carrier
- Republic on EWR to CLE, the return leg
- United Airlines on CLE to EWR79.8%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.