Carrier route record
YXEWR→ATL
Republic Airways · Newark to Atlanta
- Flights
- 119
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 2%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on EWR to ATL earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 119 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 3,038 at 79.3% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to ATL record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 88 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 115 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.9%
Every carrier on EWR to ATL, 6,252 flights
These figures cover 119 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 EWR to ATL
Republic flew 119 of the 6,252 flights on EWR to ATL, about 2% of it. Its 86.1% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 86.1% to Spirit at 70.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 79.3% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 70.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 708 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 119 | 86.1% | 42 min | 2.52% | A |
| Delta Air Lines | 3,038 | 79.3% | 95 min | 3.95% | B− |
| United Airlines | 2,024 | 76.0% | 84 min | 2.67% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 708 | 70.8% | 95 min | 4.66% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 363 | 70.1% | 77 min | 8.54% | C− |
Frontier Airlines cancels 4.7% 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.
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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 119 flights.
- 5am–8am4 flights—
- 8am–11am52 flights88.0%
- 11am–2pm27 flights—
- 2pm–5pm36 flights85.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 88.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 3 points.
Across the year
Republic on EWR to ATL through the year
- Jul–Sep 20255 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202636 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202638 flights100.0%
- Jul–Sep 202614 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 86.1% on time across 119 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on EWR to ATL logged 5 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 26 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 36 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 38 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 14 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 86.1% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on EWR to ATL runs when it is late
Republic on EWR to ATL often beats the schedule: 66 of 115 completed flights, 57%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 16 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 3 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early66 flights57.4%
- Within 15 min33 flights28.7%
- 15–29 min late6 flights5.2%
- 30–59 min late7 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 115 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 14 of 115 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on EWR to ATL
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 July 2026, 1 hour 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | 1 hour 31 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 July 2026 | 1 hour 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 11 October 2025 | 1 hour 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 56 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 March 2026 | 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 672 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Carrier
60% 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 400 minutes out of 672, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 672 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 746 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 81.7% on time across 119 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 119 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 EWR to ATL
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 119 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 86.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 115 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to ATL, every carrier
- Republic on ATL to EWR, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on EWR to ATL79.3%
- United Airlines on EWR to ATL76.0%
- Frontier Airlines on EWR to ATL70.8%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to ATL70.1%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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.