Route Reliability
Newark → Knoxville
EWR–TYS · 631 miles · Newark Liberty International Airport to McGhee Tyson Airport
83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 80%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 4 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.3%
- Cancelled
- 153
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Allegiant Air is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 80% of the time across 153 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Saturdays have been rough.
EWR–TYS flights arrived on time 96% of the time on Wednesdays and just 61% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.
Ticking up lately.
EWR–TYS flights arrived on time 79% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 75% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon80%(50 flights)
- Tue—(2 flights)
- Wed96%(22 flights)
- Thu—(3 flights)
- Fri83%(52 flights)
- Sat61%(18 flights)
- Sun—(4 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM81%(147 flights)
- 12–3 PM—(4 flights)
91%
May
Jun 88% → May 91% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 88% | 17 |
| July 2025 | 75% | 16 |
| August 2025 | 92% | 13 |
| October 2025 | 71% | 14 |
| November 2025 | 62% | 13 |
| December 2025 | 57% | 23 |
| January 2026 | 91% | 11 |
| May 2026 | 91% | 11 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
Based on 153 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.