Carrier route record
YXCLT→EWR
Republic Airways · Charlotte to Newark
- Flights
- 657
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on CLT to EWR lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 657 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Spirit Airlines, flew 402 at 76.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's CLT to EWR record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 625 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.57%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
74.5%
Every carrier on CLT to EWR, 3,755 flights
These figures cover 657 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 CLT to EWR
Republic flew 657 of the 3,755 flights on CLT to EWR, about 17% of it. Its 82.4% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 82.4% to American at 70.7%.
The three carriers here are closely matched: 5 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page) | 657 | 82.4% | 104 min | 4.57% | B− |
| Spirit Airlines | 402 | 76.0% | 81 min | 6.72% | B− |
| United Airlines | 870 | 75.9% | 108 min | 2.76% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,826 | 70.7% | 76 min | 3.67% | C− |
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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 16 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am5 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm315 flights82.5%
- 2pm–5pm241 flights86.7%
- 5pm–8pm96 flights71.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 86.7% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 71.0%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 315 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on CLT to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 59.4% on time, 36 points below January, the best at 95.8%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 108 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Thursday the weakest at 74.2%. 14 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 11,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Extreme weather
- 10%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 22% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 11,411 reported delay minutes.
39% 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 4,489 minutes out of 11,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.57%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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
8.3% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 529 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 89.7% on time across 653 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. 657 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 CLT to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.57% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 625 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CLT to EWR, every carrier
- Republic on EWR to CLT, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on CLT to EWR76.0%
- United Airlines on CLT to EWR75.9%
- American Airlines on CLT to EWR70.7%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.