Carrier route record

YXEWR→MSY

Republic Airways · Newark to New Orleans

Flights: 153
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 13%
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 MSY 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 50 minutes. That rests on 153 flights, with a median arrival 22 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to MSY record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 145 completed flights

Avg delay

51 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.23%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.7%

Every carrier on EWR to MSY, 1,218 flights

These figures cover 153 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 22 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 MSY

Republic flew 153 of the 1,218 flights on EWR to MSY, about 13% of it. Its 89.0% on time is 9 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 89.0% to Spirit at 56.5%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on EWR to MSY
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	153	89.0%	51 min	5.23%	A−
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	5	80.0%	58 min	0.00%	B+
United Airlines	1,036	78.9%	79 min	1.74%	B
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	24	56.5%	102 min	4.17%	D−

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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 153 flights.

5am–8am27 flights—
8am–11am41 flights92.1%
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm85 flights87.7%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 92.1% on time for the 8am–11am window against 87.7% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 85 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on EWR to MSY through the year

Jul–Sep 20251 flights—
Oct–Dec 202553 flights84.0%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights91.7%
Apr–Jun 202610 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 89.0% on time across 153 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on EWR to MSY logged 1 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 53 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 89 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 10 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 89.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Republic on EWR to MSY runs when it is late

Republic on EWR to MSY often beats the schedule: 92 of 145 completed flights, 63%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 16 late arrivals split 6 under half an hour, 3 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.

15+ min early92 flights63.4%
Within 15 min37 flights25.5%
15–29 min late6 flights4.1%
30–59 min late3 flights2.1%
1–2 hours late7 flights4.8%
2+ hours late0 flights0.0%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 145 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

A late pushback is often recovered here: of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 9 still arrived on time. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Republic on EWR to MSY

The latest arrival of the period was on 2 December 2025, 1 hour 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).

The latest arrivals of Republic on EWR to MSY in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
2 December 2025	1 hour 49 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
31 January 2026	1 hour 34 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
28 December 2025	1 hour 22 minutes	Carrier
19 February 2026	1 hour 19 minutes	Carrier
25 February 2026	1 hour 11 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 819 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
48%
National Airspace System
28%
Carrier
24%

48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 819 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 48 to one. The split is drawn from 819 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 92.1% on time here.

Cancellations run at 5.23%, 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 4.8% 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 1,167 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 runs 90.3% on time across 153 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 153 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 MSY

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.23% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 50 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. 145 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

Key figures