Carrier route record

YXSAV→EWR

Republic Airways · Savannah to Newark

Flights: 190
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 17%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on SAV to EWR lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 190 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on SAV to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

76.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 179 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.79%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.4%

Every carrier on SAV to EWR, 1,111 flights

These figures cover 190 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on SAV to EWR

Republic flew 190 of the 1,111 flights on SAV to EWR, about 17% of it. Its 76.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two 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.

On-time performance by carrier on SAV to EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	711	80.3%	138 min	2.11%	B
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	190	76.5%	83 min	5.79%	B−
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	210	68.0%	99 min	5.24%	C−

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 20 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–11am8 flights—
11am–2pm62 flights88.3%
2pm–5pm49 flights68.2%
5pm–8pm71 flights70.1%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 88.3% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 68.2%. 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 71 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on SAV to EWR through the year

Jul–Sep 202525 flights—
Oct–Dec 202543 flights80.5%
Jan–Mar 2026102 flights74.7%
Apr–Jun 202620 flights—

Scale runs 65% 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 76.5% on time across 190 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on SAV to EWR logged 25 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 43 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 102 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 20 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.5% annual figure is the one to use.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 47% of the 3,492 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.

National Airspace System
47%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
Carrier
22%
Extreme weather
0%

47% 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 1,651 minutes out of 3,492, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,492 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 5.79%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

7.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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.

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 92.2% on time across 190 flights, 16 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 16 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 190 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 SAV to EWR

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.79% 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. 179 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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