Route profile
PIT→EWR
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Pittsburgh to Newark, 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 48% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 6,700 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
PIT → EWR arrives on time 86.5% of the time; the return trip, EWR → PIT, arrives on time 83.2% of the time, a 3.4-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
PIT → EWR spends 28.2 minutes on the ground on a 319-mile trip: 16.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PIT and 11.4 minutes from touchdown to gate at EWR.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route holds up about the same all year, a steadier seasonal pattern than 94% of 3,357 comparable routes.
91.2% on time in its best month (March) against 81.4% in its worst (December).
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 3,357 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where PIT to EWR differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
PIT to EWR is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 4 PM: 84.4% arrive on time, 11.1 points ahead of the 73.3% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 13.7 points.
PIT to EWR holds up on Sundays better than routes of similar length do: 85.5% on time to their 76.4%, a 9.1 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 10.7 points.
June is kinder to PIT to EWR than to routes of similar length: 86.1% on time against 74.1%, 12 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 13.4 points.
Spirit Airlines’ flights on PIT to EWR arrive on time 72.8% of the time, 6.8 points below the 79.6% it manages on its routes of similar length.
Republic Airways does better on PIT to EWR than on its routes of similar length: 88.3% on time here, 83.5% there, 4.8 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 6.2 points.
PIT to EWR against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 4 PM departures | 84.4% | routes of similar length | 73.3% | +11.1 pts | 211 here, 58,289 there |
| Weekday: Sunday | 85.5% | routes of similar length | 76.4% | +9.1 pts | 873 here, 133,861 there |
| Month: June | 86.1% | routes of similar length | 74.1% | +12.0 pts | 454 here, 75,152 there |
| Airline: Spirit Airlines | 72.8% | routes of similar length | 79.6% | −6.8 pts | 751 here, 6,658 there |
| Airline: Republic Airways | 88.3% | routes of similar length | 83.5% | +4.8 pts | 5,674 here, 83,063 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 PIT → EWR flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
PIT → EWR cancelled 262 of 6,700 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 26. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 65.6% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 39 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 262 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.
172 cancellations, 65.6% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
78 cancellations, 29.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
12 cancellations, 4.6% 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.
262 coded cancellations were recorded on PIT → EWR; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
27 min late
against a median of 15 min early
Percentiles over 6,700 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at EWR after arriving from PIT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 22% | High risk |
| 45 min | 13% | Some risk |
| 60 min | 9.3% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 5.5% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 3.5% | 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 3.91% of the time and diverts 0.04% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 6,435 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 27 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 6,700 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PIT → EWR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 93.4% of the time, against 68.3% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 25.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 5 AM: too few flights to score
- 6 AM: 94.9% on time from 844 flights
- 7 AM: 91.7% on time from 833 flights
- 8 AM: 93.5% on time from 914 flights
- 9 AM: 92.2% on time from 459 flights
- 10 AM: 92.7% on time from 420 flights
- 11 AM: 89.8% on time from 420 flights
- 12 PM: 90.3% on time from 224 flights
- 1 PM: 86.3% on time from 327 flights
- 2 PM: 77.7% on time from 423 flights
- 3 PM: 86.1% on time from 227 flights
- 4 PM: 84.4% on time from 213 flights
- 5 PM: 73.8% on time from 233 flights
- 6 PM: 69.6% on time from 632 flights
- 7 PM: 66.3% on time from 281 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why PIT → EWR runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for PIT → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
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 | 5,898 | 88.3% | 3.75% | -16 min | 4.4% |
| Spirit Airlines | 792 | 72.8% | 5.18% | -8 min | 14.9% |
Republic Airways flew 88.2% of the 6,690 flights listed. Spirit Airlines cancelled 5.18% of its flights here against 3.75% for Republic Airways.
Republic Airways arrived on time 15.5 percentage points more often than Spirit Airlines on this route.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 7.6 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 89.6%
- Feb: 88.5%
- Mar: 91.2%
- Apr: 85.1%
- May: 86.4%
- Jun: 86.1%
- Jul: 81.4%
- Aug: 85.0%
- Sep: 90.1%
- Oct: 89.3%
- Nov: 84.4%
- Dec: 81.4%
December is historically the weakest month and March the strongest, a spread of 9.8 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 82.4% from 237 flights
- August 2023: 92.7% from 236 flights
- September 2023: 87.7% from 250 flights
- October 2023: 93.5% from 232 flights
- November 2023: 95.0% from 221 flights
- December 2023: 93.3% from 149 flights
- January 2024: 91.0% from 181 flights
- February 2024: 91.6% from 195 flights
- March 2024: 91.0% from 190 flights
- April 2024: 84.3% from 180 flights
- May 2024: 88.6% from 191 flights
- June 2024: 85.4% from 203 flights
- July 2024: 82.2% from 231 flights
- August 2024: 79.6% from 222 flights
- September 2024: 91.7% from 242 flights
- October 2024: 90.7% from 258 flights
- November 2024: 71.0% from 188 flights
- December 2024: 73.5% from 193 flights
- January 2025: 85.9% from 158 flights
- February 2025: 80.9% from 140 flights
- March 2025: 92.1% from 193 flights
- April 2025: 81.6% from 166 flights
- May 2025: 72.1% from 134 flights
- June 2025: 89.2% from 152 flights
- July 2025: 81.9% from 150 flights
- August 2025: 81.1% from 188 flights
- September 2025: 91.0% from 183 flights
- October 2025: 81.9% from 185 flights
- November 2025: 85.4% from 163 flights
- December 2025: 79.3% from 156 flights
- January 2026: 92.1% from 150 flights
- February 2026: 92.1% from 138 flights
- March 2026: 90.2% from 123 flights
- April 2026: 90.8% from 120 flights
- May 2026: 94.9% from 160 flights
- June 2026: 83.3% from 120 flights
- July 2026: 77.5% from 122 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 86.5% against 83.1% in the 12 months before — improving by 3.4 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 6,700 PIT → EWR 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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