Route reliability record
SAV→EWR
Savannah to Newark
- Flights
- 1,111
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 708 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.8% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,111 SAV to EWR flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly SAV to EWR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 95.0% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.8%, against 77.4% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,070 completed flights
Avg delay
118 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.33%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
United
80.3% on time across 711 flights
These figures cover 1,111 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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
Which airline is most reliable on SAV 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 711 | 80.3% | 138 min | 2.11% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 190 | 76.5% | 83 min | 5.79% | B− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 210 | 68.0% | 99 min | 5.24% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on SAV 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.
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 38 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–8am348 flights95.0%
- 8am–11am81 flights85.2%
- 11am–2pm224 flights80.0%
- 2pm–5pm326 flights57.3%
- 5pm–8pm132 flights70.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.0% of the time, against 57.3% for the afternoon window. That is 38 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 348 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 33 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 59.6% on time, 33 points below May, the best at 92.5%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 120 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.1%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 50% of the 29,000 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.
- 50%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
50% 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 14,000 minutes out of 29,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 28,630 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.33%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 80.1% on time across 1,112 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,111 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 3.33% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 1,070 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SAV to EWR questions
How often is SAV to EWR delayed?
Roughly one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 22.6% of the 1,111 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is SAV to EWR compared with the rest of the country?
77.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of half a point against it. That is worth a B− on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SAV to EWR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 95.0% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 57.3%, 38 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 SAV to EWR?
July is the weakest month at 59.6% on time, compared with 92.5% in May. Across the year that is 33 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 SAV — the return legseparate record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- United Airlines on SAV to EWR80.3%
- Republic Airways on SAV to EWR76.5%
- Spirit Airlines on SAV to EWR68.0%
- SAV to ATL, a related route88.8%
- MCO to EWR, a related route73.8%
- SAV to CLT, a related route85.4%
- United Airlines on-time record80.3%
- Republic Airways on-time record76.5%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record68.0%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
Direction matters. SAV to EWR and EWR to SAV 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.