Carrier route record
UAEWR→PBI
United Airlines · Newark to West Palm Beach
- Flights
- 2,616
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 77%
- 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 PBI lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 2,616 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on EWR to PBI from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,553 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.5%
Every carrier on EWR to PBI, 3,395 flights
These figures cover 2,616 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on EWR to PBI
United flew 2,616 of the 3,395 flights on EWR to PBI, most of the route. Its 79.4% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 79.4% to Spirit at 51.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 2,616 | 79.4% | 67 min | 2.10% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 659 | 73.8% | 62 min | 3.49% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 120 | 51.5% | 72 min | 14.17% | F− |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EWR to PBI
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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 21 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am398 flights91.2%
- 8am–11am623 flights82.4%
- 11am–2pm485 flights75.6%
- 2pm–5pm559 flights76.5%
- 5pm–8pm357 flights75.8%
- 8pm–5am194 flights70.3%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.2% of the time, against 70.3% for the overnight window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 623 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to PBI through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 87.1% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 307 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.9%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to PBI runs when it is late
United on EWR to PBI often beats the schedule: 1,062 of 2,553 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 525 late arrivals split 187 under half an hour, 158 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 180 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early1,062 flights41.6%
- Within 15 min966 flights37.8%
- 15–29 min late187 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late158 flights6.2%
- 1–2 hours late103 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late77 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,553 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
121 of 483 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 163 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 PBI.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EWR to PBI
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 9 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across November, July and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 9 hours 47 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 July 2026 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 7 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 November 2025 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 5 hours 51 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 35,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%National Airspace System
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 35,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 34,933 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 13,000 minutes out of 35,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.31%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.1% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,024 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 77.9% on time across 2,619 flights, within 2 points 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 2,616 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 PBI
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 87.1% on time and October 72.2%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 2,553 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to PBI, every carrier
- United on PBI to EWR, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on EWR to PBI73.8%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to PBI51.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Palm Beach International (PBI) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.