Carrier route record
YXSRQ→EWR
Republic Airways · Sarasota to Newark
- Flights
- 130
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 14%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.
Republic on SRQ 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 close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 130 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on SRQ 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 117 completed flights
Avg delay
119 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
10.00%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
86.5%
Every carrier on SRQ to EWR, 929 flights
These figures cover 130 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 SRQ to EWR
Republic flew 130 of the 929 flights on SRQ to EWR, about 14% of it. Its 80.3% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 86.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 87.4% to Republic at 80.3%.
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 | 799 | 87.4% | 84 min | 1.25% | A |
| Republic Airways (this page)thin sample | 130 | 80.3% | 119 min | 10.00% | B− |
Departure window
When Republic runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 130 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split Republic's SRQ to EWR record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 80.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
Republic on SRQ to EWR through the year
- Oct–Dec 202549 flights71.4%
- Jan–Mar 202670 flights85.9%
- Apr–Jun 202611 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 80.3% on time across 130 flights.
Split by quarter, Republic on SRQ to EWR logged 49 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 70 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 11 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 80.3% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why Republic runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 2,730 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.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 21%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
52% 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 2,730 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 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 2,730 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 10.00%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in ten 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
6.0% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,034 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 87.6% on time across 130 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 130 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 SRQ to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 10.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 117 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
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.