Carrier route record
UAEWR→SAV
United Airlines · Newark to Savannah
- Flights
- 711
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 64%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on EWR to SAV lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 711 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate United on EWR to SAV from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 698 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.83%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.1%
Every carrier on EWR to SAV, 1,112 flights
These figures cover 711 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on EWR to SAV
United flew 711 of the 1,112 flights on EWR to SAV, most of the route. Its 79.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 92.2% to Spirit at 72.0%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 190 | 92.2% | 57 min | 5.26% | A− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 711 | 79.4% | 76 min | 1.83% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 211 | 72.0% | 87 min | 4.74% | C− |
Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am68 flights92.6%
- 8am–11am63 flights85.0%
- 11am–2pm179 flights79.8%
- 2pm–5pm53 flights86.5%
- 5pm–8pm14 flights—
- 8pm–5am334 flights74.8%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.6% of the time, against 74.8% for the overnight window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 334 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to SAV through the year
July is the worst month at 51.9% on time, 43 points below May, the best at 94.5%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. November was the busiest month here, with 83 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.0%. 12 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 11,000 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.
- 62%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
62% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 62 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 10,926 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 708 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 runs 80.3% on time across 711 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. 711 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 United on EWR to SAV
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 711 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 79.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 698 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to SAV, every carrier
- United on SAV to EWR, the return leg
- Republic Airways on EWR to SAV92.2%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to SAV72.0%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.