Carrier route record
YXEWR→CLT
Republic Airways · Newark to Charlotte
- Flights
- 787
- 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 EWR to CLT carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.9% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to nine flights in ten arrive on time, worth an A− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 787 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,831 at 81.0% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to CLT record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 102 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 754 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.94%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.4%
Every carrier on EWR to CLT, 3,688 flights
These figures cover 787 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Republic against every carrier on EWR to CLT
Republic flew 787 of the 3,688 flights on EWR to CLT, about 21% of it. Its 87.5% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.5% to Spirit at 70.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two 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) | 787 | 87.5% | 71 min | 3.94% | A− |
| American Airlines | 1,831 | 81.0% | 111 min | 3.71% | B− |
| United Airlines | 723 | 75.7% | 90 min | 1.94% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 347 | 70.2% | 77 min | 7.20% | C− |
American Airlines cancels 3.7% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against 5 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am284 flights93.4%
- 8am–11am139 flights86.1%
- 11am–2pm206 flights86.5%
- 2pm–5pm154 flights80.3%
- 5pm–8pm1 flights—
- 8pm–5am3 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.4% of the time, against 80.3% for the afternoon window. That is 13 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 284 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on EWR to CLT through the year
September 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. July was the busiest month here, with 111 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 82.6%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on EWR to CLT runs when it is late
Republic on EWR to CLT often beats the schedule: 388 of 754 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 94 late arrivals split 37 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early388 flights51.5%
- Within 15 min272 flights36.1%
- 15–29 min late37 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late22 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late22 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late13 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 754 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 43 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at CLT.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on EWR to CLT
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 7 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in August 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 August 2026 | 5 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 May 2026 | 5 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 4 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 6,628 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,628 reported delay minutes.
45% 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 2,999 minutes out of 6,628, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.94%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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 4.6% 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 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 81.0% on time across 790 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. 787 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 CLT
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.94% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 754 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to CLT, every carrier
- Republic on CLT to EWR, the return leg
- American Airlines on EWR to CLT81.0%
- United Airlines on EWR to CLT75.7%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to CLT70.2%
- Republic Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.