Carrier route record
UAEWR→RSW
United Airlines · Newark to Fort Myers
- Flights
- 1,721
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 88%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on EWR to RSW lands a B, about a point 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,721 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United 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
78.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,682 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on EWR to RSW, 1,966 flights
These figures cover 1,721 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 RSW
United flew 1,721 of the 1,966 flights on EWR to RSW, most of the route. Its 78.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 78.5% to JetBlue at 78.2%. 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) | 1,721 | 78.5% | 70 min | 2.03% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 245 | 78.2% | 68 min | 2.45% | B |
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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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am227 flights92.3%
- 8am–11am306 flights87.0%
- 11am–2pm189 flights76.6%
- 2pm–5pm433 flights74.0%
- 5pm–8pm429 flights74.3%
- 8pm–5am137 flights66.4%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.3% of the time, against 66.4% for the overnight window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 433 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to RSW through the year
July is the worst month at 64.4% on time, 25 points below May, the best at 88.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 203 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.9%, a spread of 22 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to RSW runs when it is late
United on EWR to RSW often beats the schedule: 626 of 1,682 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 362 late arrivals split 109 under half an hour, 107 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 146 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early626 flights37.2%
- Within 15 min694 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late109 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late107 flights6.4%
- 1–2 hours late89 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late57 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,682 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
68 of 333 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 97 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 United on EWR to RSW
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 February 2026, 6 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across February, July, March and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 February 2026 | 6 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 July 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 5 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 5 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 25,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 25,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 25,182 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 92.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.03% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.23%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.7% 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 1,068 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 81.7% on time across 1,719 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,721 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 RSW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 88.9% on time and July 64.4%, a swing of 25 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,682 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to RSW, every carrier
- United on RSW to EWR, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on EWR to RSW78.2%
- United Airlines 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.