Carrier route record

YXEWR→CLT

Republic Airways · Newark to Charlotte

Flights: 653
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on EWR to CLT 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 653 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 1,827 at 81.1% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to CLT record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 121 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 630 completed flights

Avg delay

63 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.22%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.2%

Every carrier on EWR to CLT, 3,753 flights

These figures cover 653 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 CLT

Republic flew 653 of the 3,753 flights on EWR to CLT, about 17% of it. Its 89.7% on time is 10 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 89.7% to Spirit at 73.0%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 81.1% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 73.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 404 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on EWR to CLT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)	653	89.7%	63 min	3.22%	A−
American Airlines	1,827	81.1%	109 min	3.89%	B−
United Airlines	869	74.5%	92 min	2.07%	C
Spirit Airlines	404	73.0%	77 min	6.44%	C−

Spirit Airlines cancels 6.4% 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 653 flights.

5am–8am249 flights92.9%
8am–11am129 flights90.4%
11am–2pm176 flights88.0%
2pm–5pm93 flights84.8%
5pm–8pm1 flights—
8pm–5am5 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.9% of the time, against 84.8% for the afternoon window. That is 8 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 249 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on EWR to CLT through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.September best, October worst

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. June was the busiest month here, with 108 flights.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 92.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 83.3%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 4,083 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
30%
Carrier
18%
Extreme weather
12%

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 4,083 reported delay minutes.

40% 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 1,634 minutes out of 4,083, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations run at 3.22%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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 3.3% 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 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. 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 82.4% on time across 657 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. 653 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 3.22% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 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. 630 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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