OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

DTWEWR

Detroit to Newark

487 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DTW–EWR arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay85 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled4.0%of scheduled flights

based on 3,043 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlinesbest
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights69
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time63%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel6.5%
    Flights384
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time67%
    Medianon time
    p9095 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights1,550
  • Republic Airways
    On-time71%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel6.0%
    Flights1,040

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline21%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)63%
  • Late aircraft13%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→DTW airportDetroit→EWR airportNewark→United Airlines on this routecarrier detail→United Airlinesairline profile→

Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.