Carrier route record
YXEWR→SRQ
Republic Airways · Newark to Sarasota
- Flights
- 130
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on EWR to SRQ 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 35 minutes. That rests on 130 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, Republic's EWR to SRQ record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 100 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
36 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.92%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.0%
Every carrier on EWR to SRQ, 929 flights
These figures cover 130 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 SRQ
Republic flew 130 of the 929 flights on EWR to SRQ, about 14% of it. Its 87.6% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.6% to United at 78.8%.
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 Airways (this page)thin sample | 130 | 87.6% | 36 min | 6.92% | A− |
| United Airlines | 799 | 78.8% | 75 min | 1.50% | B |
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 130 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Republic's EWR to SRQ record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 87.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Republic on EWR to SRQ through the year
- Oct–Dec 202549 flights86.4%
- Jan–Mar 202670 flights87.9%
- Apr–Jun 202611 flights—
Scale runs 80% 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 87.6% on time across 130 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on EWR to SRQ logged 49 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 70 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 11 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 87.6% annual figure is the one to use.
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 546 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 39%National Airspace System
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, 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 214 of the 546 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 546 reported delay minutes.
39% 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 211 minutes out of 546, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 6.92%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen 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 1.7% 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 1,034 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 80.3% on time across 130 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. 130 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 SRQ
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.92% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you roughly 35 minutes; 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. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.