Carrier route record
YXORF→EWR
Republic Airways · Norfolk to Newark
- Flights
- 707
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on ORF to EWR lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 707 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Republic on ORF to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 656 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.5%
Every carrier on ORF to EWR, 867 flights
These figures cover 707 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 ORF to EWR
Republic flew 707 of the 867 flights on ORF to EWR, most of the route. Its 80.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.7% to Republic at 80.8%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlinesthin sample | 160 | 89.7% | 37 min | 3.12% | A− |
| Republic Airways (this page) | 707 | 80.8% | 95 min | 7.07% | B− |
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Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am202 flights90.7%
- 8am–11am88 flights90.4%
- 11am–2pm183 flights80.0%
- 2pm–5pm2 flights—
- 5pm–8pm189 flights67.1%
- 8pm–5am43 flights71.4%
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.7% of the time, against 67.1% for the evening window. That is 24 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 202 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Republic on ORF to EWR through the year
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 55.6%. June is the strongest month at 90.1%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 34 points. July was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 76.8%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Republic on ORF to EWR runs when it is late
Republic on ORF to EWR often beats the schedule: 322 of 656 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 126 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 37 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 50 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early322 flights49.1%
- Within 15 min208 flights31.7%
- 15–29 min late39 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late37 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights3.7%
- 2+ hours late26 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 656 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 116 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 29 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Republic on ORF to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 July 2026, 21 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Four of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | 21 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 May 2026 | 16 hours 20 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 July 2026 | 14 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 July 2026 | 5 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 July 2026 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,113 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,933 reported delay minutes.
34% 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 4,060 minutes out of 12,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 7.07%, against 1.89% 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
7.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 284 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 83.4% on time across 708 flights, within 3 points 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. 707 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 ORF to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.07% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 656 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.