Carrier route record
YXCLT→EWR
Republic Airways · Charlotte to Newark
- Flights
- 790
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on CLT to EWR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 7.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% 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 790 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 724 at 82.0% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on CLT 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
81.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 726 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.34%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.9%
Every carrier on CLT to EWR, 3,690 flights
These figures cover 790 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% 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 CLT to EWR
Republic flew 790 of the 3,690 flights on CLT to EWR, about 21% of it. Its 81.0% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 82.0% to American at 71.5%. 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 82.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 71.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,831 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 724 | 82.0% | 89 min | 2.49% | B |
| Republic Airways (this page) | 790 | 81.0% | 97 min | 7.34% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 345 | 74.7% | 83 min | 7.25% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,831 | 71.5% | 77 min | 3.50% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.5% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am3 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm331 flights85.2%
- 2pm–5pm299 flights84.2%
- 5pm–8pm157 flights65.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 85.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 65.0%. 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 331 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on CLT to EWR through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 66.7%. January is the strongest month at 95.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 29 points. July was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.9% on time and Thursday the weakest at 76.6%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on CLT to EWR runs when it is late
Republic on CLT to EWR often beats the schedule: 307 of 726 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 138 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 69 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early307 flights42.3%
- Within 15 min281 flights38.7%
- 15–29 min late34 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late35 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late39 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 726 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 136 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on CLT to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 July 2026, 19 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | 19 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 November 2025 | 8 hours 45 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 24 August 2026 | 7 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 March 2026 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 May 2026 | 5 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%National Airspace System
- 11%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 to one. The split is drawn from 13,444 reported delay minutes.
41% 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 5,555 minutes out of 13,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 7.34%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
9.5% 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.
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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.5% on time across 787 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. 790 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 7.34% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 726 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
- United Airlines on CLT to EWR82.0%
- Spirit Airlines on CLT to EWR74.7%
- American Airlines on CLT to EWR71.5%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.