Carrier route record
YXEWR→CLE
Republic Airways · Newark to Cleveland
- Flights
- 718
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 33%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on EWR to CLE earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 55 minutes. That rests on 718 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to CLE record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 104 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 681 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.1%
Every carrier on EWR to CLE, 2,163 flights
These figures cover 718 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 CLE
Republic flew 718 of the 2,163 flights on EWR to CLE, about 33% of it. Its 87.7% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.7% to United at 76.4%.
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) | 718 | 87.7% | 55 min | 5.15% | A− |
| United Airlines | 1,445 | 76.4% | 90 min | 3.04% | B− |
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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 718 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am117 flights90.0%
- 11am–2pm242 flights88.9%
- 2pm–5pm356 flights86.2%
- 5pm–8pm3 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 90.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
Republic on EWR to CLE through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 97.4% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 98 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 91.6% on time and Friday the weakest at 83.8%, a spread of 8 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on EWR to CLE runs when it is late
Republic on EWR to CLE often beats the schedule: 287 of 681 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 27 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early287 flights42.1%
- Within 15 min310 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late33 flights4.8%
- 30–59 min late27 flights4.0%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights2.2%
- 2+ hours late9 flights1.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 681 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 77 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 26 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on EWR to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 June 2026, 4 hours 5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 June 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 January 2026 | 3 hours 27 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 February 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 4,612 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 19%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,612 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 4,612 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 90.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.15%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.5% 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.
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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.7% on time across 718 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 718 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 CLE
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.15% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 55 minutes; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 681 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to CLE, every carrier
- Republic on CLE to EWR, the return leg
- United Airlines on EWR to CLE76.4%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.