Carrier route record

YXEWR→SAV

Republic Airways · Newark to Savannah

Flights: 190
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 3

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

Republic on EWR to SAV 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 190 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to SAV record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 146 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 180 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.26%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.1%

Every carrier on EWR to SAV, 1,112 flights

These figures cover 190 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 SAV

Republic flew 190 of the 1,112 flights on EWR to SAV, about 17% of it. Its 92.2% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 92.2% to Spirit at 72.0%. One 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 SAV
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	190	92.2%	57 min	5.26%	A−
United Airlines	711	79.4%	76 min	1.83%	B
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	211	72.0%	87 min	4.74%	C−

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 190 flights.

5am–8am13 flights—
8am–11am77 flights90.5%
11am–2pm29 flights—
2pm–5pm71 flights94.0%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

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

The 2pm–5pm window is the strongest at 94.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.

Across the year

Republic on EWR to SAV through the year

Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
Oct–Dec 202543 flights92.7%
Jan–Mar 2026102 flights89.6%
Apr–Jun 202620 flights—

Scale runs 80% to 100%. 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 92.2% on time across 190 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on EWR to SAV logged 25 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 43 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 102 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 20 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 92.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 48% of the 800 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.

Carrier
48%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
20%
Late-arriving aircraft
12%

Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 800 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 384 of the 800 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 5.26%, against 1.81% 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 2.2% 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 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 76.5% on time across 190 flights, 16 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 16 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 190 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 SAV

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.26% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 180 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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