Carrier route record
YXCLE→EWR
Republic Airways · Cleveland to Newark
- Flights
- 737
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 34%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on CLE to EWR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 737 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
81.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 697 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.29%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on CLE to EWR, 2,163 flights
These figures cover 737 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on CLE to EWR
Republic flew 737 of the 2,163 flights on CLE to EWR, about 34% of it. Its 81.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 81.3% 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) | 737 | 81.3% | 56 min | 5.29% | B− |
| United Airlines | 1,426 | 79.8% | 108 min | 2.10% | B |
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 737 flights.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm194 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm256 flights78.4%
- 5pm–8pm283 flights85.3%
- 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 85.3% on time. The full set of windows spans 7 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 74.5%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 7,304 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.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
54% 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 3,917 minutes out of 7,304, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 7,304 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.29%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
6.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 88.8% on time across 737 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 737 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 5.29% 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. 697 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.