Flights Houston → Newark
IAH → EWR
Route overview
The flight route from Houston to Newark is served by various aircraft models including the Boeing 737 series and Airbus A320 family, with a total of 890 flights recorded. The destination airport, which opened in 2001, handles over 43 million passengers annually, and the route has a 79% on-time performance rate with an average delay of 14 minutes.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Houston (IAH) → Newark (EWR) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 1187 flights monitored in recent months, 79% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 14 minutes. The cancellation rate is 5.56%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 31.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Newark the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Newark: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Houston (IAH) to Newark (EWR) heads north-east for about 2,250 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 14m.
Departures from Houston on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 41% of IAH-EWR flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Newark it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 1,187 tracked IAH-EWR flights, 79% left on time with an average delay of 14 min and a 5.6% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about IAH-EWR
On the Houston (IAH) -> Newark (EWR) route, on-time performance is 79% with an average delay of 14 minutes, based on 1187 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Houston-Newark is 5.56% across 1187 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
