Carrier route record

B6EWR→RSW

JetBlue Airways · Newark to Fort Myers

Flights: 307
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue on EWR to RSW lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 307 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on EWR to RSW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 299 completed flights

Avg delay

71 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.28%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

80.1%

Every carrier on EWR to RSW, 2,016 flights

These figures cover 307 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.

Carrier by carrier

JetBlue against every carrier on EWR to RSW

JetBlue flew 307 of the 2,016 flights on EWR to RSW, about 15% of it. Its 81.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from JetBlue at 81.3% to United at 79.9%.

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.

On-time performance by carrier on EWR to RSW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample	307	81.3%	71 min	2.28%	B
United Airlines	1,709	79.9%	66 min	1.76%	B

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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am80 flights91.1%
8am–11am61 flights69.5%
11am–2pm75 flights79.5%
2pm–5pm59 flights86.2%
5pm–8pm28 flights—
8pm–5am4 flights—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.1% of the time, against 69.5% for the morning window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 80 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on EWR to RSW through the year

Jul–Sep 202584 flights91.6%
Oct–Dec 202593 flights71.1%
Jan–Mar 202659 flights78.2%
Apr–Jun 202671 flights84.5%

Scale runs 65% 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 81.3% on time across 307 flights.

JetBlue on EWR to RSW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 91.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 71.1%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 77 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.2%. 17 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why JetBlue 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 3,972 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
0%

39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,972 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 39 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,972 reported delay minutes.

The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.1% on time here.

Cancellations sit at 2.28% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.33%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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 1,068 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.5% on time across 309 flights, 11 points below 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 307 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 RSW

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 307 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 81.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 299 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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