Carrier route record
YXEWR→ATL
Republic Airways · Newark to Atlanta
- Flights
- 139
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 2%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 35 minutes. That rests on 139 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 3,055 at 80.1% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to ATL record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 84 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 136 completed flights
Avg delay
34 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.44%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.6%
Every carrier on EWR to ATL, 6,290 flights
These figures cover 139 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 EWR to ATL
Republic flew 139 of the 6,290 flights on EWR to ATL, about 2% of it. Its 86.0% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 86.0% to Spirit at 69.5%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 80.1% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 69.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 425 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 139 | 86.0% | 34 min | 1.44% | A |
| Delta Air Lines | 3,055 | 80.1% | 88 min | 3.40% | B− |
| United Airlines | 1,963 | 77.4% | 82 min | 2.60% | B |
| Frontier Airlines | 708 | 70.1% | 84 min | 3.11% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 425 | 69.5% | 82 min | 8.00% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 8.0% 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 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 139 flights.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am62 flights88.5%
- 11am–2pm32 flights84.4%
- 2pm–5pm44 flights83.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 88.5% on time for the 8am–11am window against 83.3% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 62 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on EWR to ATL through the year
- Jul–Sep 202539 flights81.1%
- Oct–Dec 202526 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202636 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202638 flights100.0%
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 86.0% on time across 139 flights.
Republic on EWR to ATL did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.1%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 46 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 57% of the 647 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.
- 57%National Airspace System
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
57% 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 369 minutes out of 647, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 647 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.44% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.72%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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 80.1% on time across 139 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 139 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. 139 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 86.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 136 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 ATL80.1%
- United Airlines on EWR to ATL77.4%
- Frontier Airlines on EWR to ATL70.1%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to ATL69.5%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) delay statistics
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
- Do budget airlines really get delayed more? The numbers
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.