Carrier route record
NKSAV→EWR
Spirit Airlines · Savannah to Newark
- Flights
- 210
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Spirit Airlines.
Spirit on SAV to EWR sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 10 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 210 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so Spirit on SAV to EWR runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 96 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 197 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.24%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.4%
Every carrier on SAV to EWR, 1,111 flights
These figures cover 210 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.3% 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
Spirit against every carrier on SAV to EWR
Spirit flew 210 of the 1,111 flights on SAV to EWR, about 19% of it. Its 68.0% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 80.3% to Spirit at 68.0%. 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.
| 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 Airlines (this page)thin sample | 210 | 68.0% | 99 min | 5.24% | C− |
Departure window
When Spirit runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 27 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–8am—
- 8am–11am32 flights71.9%
- 11am–2pm117 flights76.4%
- 2pm–5pm61 flights49.1%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 76.4% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 49.1%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 117 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Spirit on SAV to EWR through the year
- Jul–Sep 202548 flights78.3%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights72.3%
- Jan–Mar 202663 flights62.1%
- Apr–Jun 202612 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 68.0% on time across 210 flights.
Spirit on SAV to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 78.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.1%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 70 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 72.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.5%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why Spirit runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 6,248 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.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 15%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,248 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,248 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.24%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.3% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 72.0% on time across 211 flights, 4 points above 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 210 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 Spirit on SAV to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.24% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 197 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SAV to EWR, every carrier
- Spirit on EWR to SAV, the return leg
- United Airlines on SAV to EWR80.3%
- Republic Airways on SAV to EWR76.5%
- Spirit Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.