Carrier route record
UASAV→EWR
United Airlines · Savannah to Newark
- Flights
- 711
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 64%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on SAV to EWR lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.3 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 711 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate United on SAV 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
80.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 694 completed flights
Avg delay
138 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.11%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
77.4%
Every carrier on SAV to EWR, 1,111 flights
These figures cover 711 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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
United against every carrier on SAV to EWR
United flew 711 of the 1,111 flights on SAV to EWR, most of the route. Its 80.3% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 80.3% to Spirit at 68.0%. Two 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 (this page) | 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
United flight numbers on SAV to EWR
Departure window
When United runs best on this route
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–11am41 flights95.1%
- 11am–2pm45 flights77.8%
- 2pm–5pm216 flights57.1%
- 5pm–8pm61 flights70.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.1% of the time, against 57.1% 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
United on SAV to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 64.2% on time, 30 points below February, the best at 93.9%. 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. November was the busiest month here, with 83 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 87.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.5%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 58% of the 19,000 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.
- 58%National Airspace System
- 15%Extreme weather
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 15% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 18,890 reported delay minutes.
58% 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 11,000 minutes out of 19,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.11% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
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. 10.4% 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 79.4% on time across 711 flights, within about a point 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. 711 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 United on SAV to EWR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 711 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 80.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 694 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SAV to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to SAV, the return leg
- Republic Airways on SAV to EWR76.5%
- Spirit Airlines on SAV to EWR68.0%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
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.