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Route Reliability

Madison → Newark

MSN–EWR · 799 miles · Dane County Regional Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport

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Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
88%
Arrive within 15 minutes
2 min early
Average arrival delay
2.9%
Cancelled
375
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 88% of the time across 375 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Departure time hasn't mattered much.

On-time rates stay between 88% and 90% across the day.

Wednesdays have been rough.

MSN–EWR flights arrived on time 96% of the time on Fridays and just 79% on Wednesdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

MSN–EWR flights arrived on time 93% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon86%(50 flights)
  • Tue90%(50 flights)
  • Wed79%(53 flights)
  • Thu91%(53 flights)
  • Fri96%(52 flights)
  • Sat85%(53 flights)
  • Sun89%(53 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM88%(352 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(10 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(2 flights)
On-time trend by month
98%
May

Jun 80% → May 98% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202580%30
July 202576%29
August 202581%31
September 2025100%29
October 202594%31
November 202587%30
December 202581%31
January 202686%28
February 202689%26
March 202693%29
April 202690%29
May 202698%41

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Based on 375 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.