FNC→EWR

United Airlines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on FNC to EWR, with 110 flights and an average of 127 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

The DOT's international report puts 27 flights on the pair in August 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in April 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.

Newark Liberty International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 77.4% of its 122,267 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 3.44% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at EWR reaches a flight from FNC just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Every flight that departs Madeira falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Newark Liberty International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from EWR is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 3,171 miles, 5,102 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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There is no grade to give FNC to EWR without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: roughly a weekly round trip, a single carrier, a departure airport that EUROCONTROL does not score and an arrival airport that runs 77% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at EWR; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• Madeira (FNC): every US route
• Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
• LHR to EWR, from London6,322 flights
• CDG to EWR, from Paris2,140 flights
• LIS to EWR, from Lisbon2,069 flights
• DUB to EWR, from Dublin1,996 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

Portugal publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.