Carrier route record
B6EWR→RSW
JetBlue Airways · Newark to Fort Myers
- Flights
- 245
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 12%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on EWR to RSW 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 245 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
78.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 238 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on EWR to RSW, 1,966 flights
These figures cover 245 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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
JetBlue against every carrier on EWR to RSW
JetBlue flew 245 of the 1,966 flights on EWR to RSW, about 12% of it. Its 78.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 78.5% to JetBlue at 78.2%.
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 | 1,721 | 78.5% | 70 min | 2.03% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 245 | 78.2% | 68 min | 2.45% | B |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am18 flights—
- 8am–11am61 flights69.5%
- 11am–2pm75 flights79.5%
- 2pm–5pm59 flights86.2%
- 5pm–8pm28 flights—
- 8pm–5am4 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 2pm–5pm slot at 86.2% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 69.5%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 75 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on EWR to RSW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202593 flights71.1%
- Jan–Mar 202659 flights78.2%
- Apr–Jun 202671 flights84.5%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 78.2% on time across 245 flights.
JetBlue on EWR to RSW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.5% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 71.1%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 82 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, Friday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.8%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on EWR to RSW runs when it is late
JetBlue on EWR to RSW often beats the schedule: 78 of 238 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 52 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 18 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights32.8%
- Within 15 min108 flights45.4%
- 15–29 min late18 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late16 flights6.7%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 238 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
13 of 48 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 17 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 RSW.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on EWR to RSW
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 November 2025, 6 hours 34 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 November 2025 | 6 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 October 2025 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 January 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 3,526 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 0%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,526 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 44 to one. The split is drawn from 3,526 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.45% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.6% 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 1,068 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.0% on time across 247 flights, 12 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 12 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 245 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. 245 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 78.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 238 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to RSW, every carrier
- JetBlue on RSW to EWR, the return leg
- United Airlines on EWR to RSW78.5%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) 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.