Carrier route record
UAEWR→FLL
United Airlines · Newark to Fort Lauderdale
- Flights
- 2,723
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 58%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on EWR to FLL lands a B, about a point better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 2,723 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, JetBlue Airways, flew 1,060 at 72.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on EWR to FLL from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,650 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.53%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.3%
Every carrier on EWR to FLL, 4,671 flights
These figures cover 2,723 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on EWR to FLL
United flew 2,723 of the 4,671 flights on EWR to FLL, most of the route. Its 78.2% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 75.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 78.2% to Spirit at 69.6%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 2,723 | 78.2% | 71 min | 2.53% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,060 | 72.2% | 82 min | 4.62% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines | 888 | 69.6% | 78 min | 7.88% | C− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 7.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EWR to FLL
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am399 flights94.0%
- 8am–11am441 flights80.6%
- 11am–2pm624 flights76.3%
- 2pm–5pm381 flights75.3%
- 5pm–8pm542 flights73.6%
- 8pm–5am336 flights70.5%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.0% of the time, against 70.5% for the overnight window. That is 24 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 624 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to FLL through the year
December is the weak month at 69.6% on time, against 90.6% in June. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. January was the busiest month here, with 289 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.1%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to FLL runs when it is late
United on EWR to FLL often beats the schedule: 1,018 of 2,650 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 578 late arrivals split 195 under half an hour, 169 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 214 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early1,018 flights38.4%
- Within 15 min1,054 flights39.8%
- 15–29 min late195 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late169 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late126 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late88 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,650 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
138 of 514 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 202 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at FLL.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EWR to FLL
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 October 2025, 8 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 October 2025 | 8 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 September 2025 | 6 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 6 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 6 hours 16 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 41,000 reported delay minutes.
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%National Airspace System
- 22%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 41,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 40,815 reported delay minutes.
35% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 14,000 minutes out of 41,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 2.53%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,065 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 78.1% on time across 2,721 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 2,723 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking United on EWR to FLL
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. June runs 90.6% on time and December 69.6%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 2,650 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to FLL, every carrier
- United on FLL to EWR, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on EWR to FLL72.2%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to FLL69.6%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.