Carrier route record
B6EWR→LAX
JetBlue Airways · Newark to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 480
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on EWR to LAX sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 480 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Alaska Airlines, flew 491 at 72.1% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on EWR to LAX runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 464 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.33%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.7%
Every carrier on EWR to LAX, 4,750 flights
These figures cover 480 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on EWR to LAX
JetBlue flew 480 of the 4,750 flights on EWR to LAX, about 10% of it. Its 70.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 70.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 72.1% to Spirit at 62.6%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: about a point 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 491 | 72.1% | 71 min | 2.65% | C |
| United Airlines | 3,527 | 71.0% | 84 min | 1.93% | C |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 480 | 70.5% | 79 min | 3.33% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 252 | 62.6% | 82 min | 7.94% | D− |
No carrier stands out. Alaska tops the table at 72.1%, about a point clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.
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Departure window
When JetBlue runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 21 points, against about a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am129 flights74.2%
- 8am–11am78 flights75.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm28 flights—
- 5pm–8pm80 flights82.3%
- 8pm–5am165 flights60.9%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.9% on time, against 82.3% for the 5pm–8pm slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 165 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on EWR to LAX through the year
- Jul–Sep 202581 flights87.5%
- Oct–Dec 2025199 flights66.5%
- Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights62.7%
- Jul–Sep 2026132 flights69.9%
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.5% on time across 480 flights.
JetBlue on EWR to LAX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 87.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.7%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 120 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 77.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 67.6%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on EWR to LAX runs when it is late
JetBlue on EWR to LAX often beats the schedule: 120 of 464 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 137 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 32 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 66 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early120 flights25.9%
- Within 15 min207 flights44.6%
- 15–29 min late39 flights8.4%
- 30–59 min late32 flights6.9%
- 1–2 hours late40 flights8.6%
- 2+ hours late26 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 464 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 94 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 10 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 53 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 LAX.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on EWR to LAX
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 12 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 12 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 10 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 January 2026 | 5 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 July 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 10,851 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.33%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
14.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
At 2,454 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.4% on time across 480 flights, 8 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 480 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking JetBlue on EWR to LAX
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.33% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 464 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to LAX, every carrier
- JetBlue on LAX to EWR, the return leg
- Alaska Airlines on EWR to LAX72.1%
- United Airlines on EWR to LAX71.0%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to LAX62.6%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 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.