Route reliability record
PIT→EWR
Pittsburgh to Newark
- Flights
- 1,741
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 319 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 5.0% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to nine flights in ten arrive on time, worth an A− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,741 PIT to EWR flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Best time to fly PIT to EWR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 94.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 89.6%, against 87.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,652 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.05%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Republic
87.5% on time across 1,692 flights
These figures cover 1,741 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on PIT to EWR
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 | 1,692 | 87.5% | 68 min | 5.02% | A− |
| United Airlinesthin sample | 7 | 85.7% | 73 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 42 | 64.1% | 78 min | 7.14% | D− |
Flight by flight
Flights on PIT to EWR
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Pittsburgh to Newark
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 3 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. PIT → JFKPittsburgh to New York | Republic Airways | 83.7% | 86.8% | 3.59% | 5am–8am, Wed | YX 4568 09:22 |
| 2. PIT → EWRPittsburgh to Newark | Republic Airways | 83.1% | 87.5% | 5.02% | 5am–8am, Wed (route) | YX 3560 09:00 |
| 3. PIT → JFKPittsburgh to New York | JetBlue Airways | 77.1% | 83.3% | 7.49% | 5am–8am, Wed | B6 1198 06:00 |
| 4. PIT → LGAPittsburgh to New York | Republic Airways | 75.9% | 80.5% | 5.77% | 5am–8am, Fri (route) | YX 5753 06:05 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
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–8am501 flights94.6%
- 8am–11am453 flights92.3%
- 11am–2pm325 flights87.4%
- 2pm–5pm56 flights78.2%
- 5pm–8pm381 flights71.1%
- 8pm–5am25 flights—
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 94.6% of the time, against 71.1% 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 501 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter PIT to EWR by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On PIT to EWR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 94.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 71.1%, a wide gap of 23.5 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am94.6%
- 8–11am92.3%
- 11am–2pm87.4%
- 2–5pm78.2%
- 5–8pm71.1%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 77.5% on time, 17 points below May, the best at 94.9%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 185 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 89.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 81.7%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
54% 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 7,956 minutes out of 15,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 14,744 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 94.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 5.05%, 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 actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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.
At 319 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.4% on time across 1,740 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,741 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in EWR after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.05% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 1,652 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PIT to EWR questions
How often is PIT to EWR delayed?
About one flight in eight arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 13.0% of the 1,741 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is PIT to EWR compared with the rest of the country?
87.0% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 10 points in its favour. That is worth a A− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PIT to EWR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 94.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 71.1%, 24 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on PIT to EWR?
July is the weakest month at 77.5% on time, compared with 94.9% in May. Across the year that is 17 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to PIT — the return legseparate record
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- PIT to ORD, a related route77.1%
- MCO to EWR, a related route75.0%
- PIT to LGA, a related route79.9%
- Republic Airways on-time record87.5%
- United Airlines on-time record85.7%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record64.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. PIT to EWR and EWR to PIT are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.