Route profile
EWR→PIT
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Newark to Pittsburgh, 319 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 32% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 6,699 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
EWR → PIT arrives on time 83.2% of the time; the return trip, PIT → EWR, arrives on time 86.5% of the time, a 3.4-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
EWR → PIT spends 30.8 minutes on the ground on a 319-mile trip: 24.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at EWR and 6.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at PIT.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where EWR to PIT differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
EWR to PIT is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 2 PM: 91.5% arrive on time, 13.9 points ahead of the 77.6% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 16.9 points.
EWR to PIT holds up on Mondays better than routes of similar length do: 83.7% on time to their 78.7%, a 5 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 6.5 points.
May is kinder to EWR to PIT than to routes of similar length: 85.1% on time against 77.2%, 7.9 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 9.9 points.
Spirit Airlines’ flights on EWR to PIT arrive on time 75.6% of the time, 3.7 points below the 79.3% it manages on its routes of similar length.
EWR to PIT against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 2 PM departures | 91.5% | routes of similar length | 77.6% | +13.9 pts | 212 here, 49,153 there |
| Weekday: Monday | 83.7% | routes of similar length | 78.7% | +5.0 pts | 941 here, 139,525 there |
| Month: May | 85.1% | routes of similar length | 77.2% | +7.9 pts | 443 here, 78,695 there |
| Airline: Spirit Airlines | 75.6% | routes of similar length | 79.3% | −3.7 pts | 765 here, 6,644 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 319 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why EWR → PIT flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
EWR → PIT cancelled 326 of 6,699 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 21. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 64.7% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 32 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 326 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
211 cancellations, 64.7% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
104 cancellations, 31.9% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
11 cancellations, 3.4% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. With only one or two carriers on the route, the split mostly reflects how they file. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
326 coded cancellations were recorded on EWR → PIT; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
36 min late
against a median of 13 min early
Percentiles over 6,699 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at PIT after arriving from EWR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 26% | High risk |
| 45 min | 16% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 6.5% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.4% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 4.87% of the time and diverts 0.06% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 6,369 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 36 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 6,699 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
EWR → PIT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 91.7% of the time, against 74.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 17.7 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 87.9% on time from 146 flights
- 7 AM: 93.6% on time from 273 flights
- 8 AM: 92.8% on time from 231 flights
- 9 AM: 86.8% on time from 403 flights
- 10 AM: 91.0% on time from 429 flights
- 11 AM: 86.1% on time from 241 flights
- 12 PM: 88.2% on time from 266 flights
- 1 PM: 88.0% on time from 311 flights
- 2 PM: 91.5% on time from 214 flights
- 3 PM: 85.3% on time from 295 flights
- 4 PM: 83.5% on time from 602 flights
- 5 PM: 78.2% on time from 792 flights
- 6 PM: 82.2% on time from 608 flights
- 7 PM: 76.6% on time from 697 flights
- 8 PM: 82.7% on time from 214 flights
- 9 PM: 75.1% on time from 735 flights
- 10 PM: 72.1% on time from 186 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why EWR → PIT runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for EWR → PIT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on EWR → PIT, at 42.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 91.7% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 74.0%.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 5,895 | 84.2% | 5.04% | -14 min | 5.8% |
| Spirit Airlines | 794 | 75.6% | 3.65% | -7 min | 13.5% |
Republic Airways flew 88.1% of the 6,689 flights listed. Republic Airways cancelled 5.04% of its flights here against 3.65% for Spirit Airlines.
Republic Airways arrived on time 8.6 percentage points more often than Spirit Airlines on this route.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 6.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 86.8%
- Feb: 88.0%
- Mar: 86.2%
- Apr: 82.6%
- May: 85.1%
- Jun: 79.8%
- Jul: 69.4%
- Aug: 83.3%
- Sep: 86.9%
- Oct: 87.4%
- Nov: 83.5%
- Dec: 80.6%
July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 18.6 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 69.4% from 237 flights
- August 2023: 90.6% from 237 flights
- September 2023: 88.5% from 249 flights
- October 2023: 94.0% from 234 flights
- November 2023: 95.5% from 221 flights
- December 2023: 89.5% from 153 flights
- January 2024: 90.4% from 182 flights
- February 2024: 93.7% from 195 flights
- March 2024: 91.6% from 191 flights
- April 2024: 86.9% from 179 flights
- May 2024: 86.5% from 191 flights
- June 2024: 81.7% from 203 flights
- July 2024: 76.3% from 231 flights
- August 2024: 79.2% from 222 flights
- September 2024: 87.9% from 242 flights
- October 2024: 86.9% from 259 flights
- November 2024: 70.3% from 188 flights
- December 2024: 77.5% from 193 flights
- January 2025: 82.4% from 158 flights
- February 2025: 77.8% from 140 flights
- March 2025: 85.6% from 193 flights
- April 2025: 74.5% from 165 flights
- May 2025: 71.3% from 127 flights
- June 2025: 78.2% from 151 flights
- July 2025: 63.3% from 150 flights
- August 2025: 78.4% from 188 flights
- September 2025: 83.6% from 183 flights
- October 2025: 79.6% from 185 flights
- November 2025: 82.1% from 163 flights
- December 2025: 75.3% from 155 flights
- January 2026: 87.2% from 152 flights
- February 2026: 90.5% from 138 flights
- March 2026: 78.5% from 122 flights
- April 2026: 86.7% from 120 flights
- May 2026: 92.4% from 160 flights
- June 2026: 78.6% from 120 flights
- July 2026: 62.9% from 122 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 81.5% against 78.9% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 6,699 EWR → PIT flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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