Originally Posted by
rkkwan
EWR during the summer is even worse than EWR during winter. Expect delays every afternoon. EWR, along with LGA, JFK and PHL are constantly at the bottom of all US airports for delays year round, including summer.
I think EWR is worse than LGA and JFK. They seem to get much more backed up. I'm not sure if it's congestion that causes it, or perhaps CO's reluctance to cancel flights, but the EWR backups seem to be longer than the others in the area.
Just a couple weeks ago, EWR was showing 2.5 hour delays due to "weather/wind" while JFK was also showing 35-minute delays due to "weather/wind." Fortunately I was travelling via JFK, and we took only a 30-minute delay, while CO's comparable flight to EWR was delayed a good 2 hours.
Obviously that's anecdotal, but I've seen this pattern more than a few times, and the weather can't be significantly different between EWR and JFK.
More clinically, looking at the 10/2008 data (the latest that's available, and it was a fairly good month actually), EWR is showing a 69.7% on-time arrival rate, compared to JFK at 81.7%, and LGA at 75.0%.