Route reliability record
EWR→SRQ
Newark to Sarasota
- Flights
- 929
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,034 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 929 EWR to SRQ flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly EWR to SRQ: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.4%, against 78.1% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 903 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.48%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
United
76.8% on time across 792 flights
These figures cover 929 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on EWR to SRQ
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 137 | 85.9% | 43 min | 6.57% | A− |
| United Airlines | 792 | 76.8% | 74 min | 1.77% | B |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Newark to Sarasota
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EWR → TPANewark to Tampa | United Airlines | 79.2% | 81.0% | 2.19% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 1979 07:00 |
| 2. JFK → TPANew York to Tampa | Delta Air Lines | 77.5% | 79.7% | 2.74% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2042 07:05 |
| 3. EWR → SRQNewark to Sarasota | United Airlines | 75.4% | 76.8% | 1.77% | 5am–8am, Mon | — |
| 4. LGA → TPANew York to Tampa | Delta Air Lines | 70.6% | 73.2% | 3.54% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2195 10:50 |
| 5. JFK → TPANew York to Tampa | JetBlue Airways | 68.9% | 73.1% | 5.81% | 5am–8am, Tue | B6 225 20:29 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
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.
- 5am–8am257 flights90.6%
- 8am–11am107 flights72.5%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm202 flights82.0%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am363 flights68.6%
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 90.6% of the time, against 68.6% for the overnight 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter EWR to SRQ by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On EWR to SRQ, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 90.6% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 68.6%, a wide gap of 22.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am90.6%
- 8–11am72.5%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm82.0%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am68.6%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 36 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
July is the worst month at 50.9% on time, 36 points below February, the best at 87.0%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.7%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 14,023 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 90.6% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.0% 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 1,034 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 84.4% on time across 929 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 929 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in SRQ after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 929 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 78.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 903 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
EWR to SRQ questions
How often is EWR to SRQ delayed?
Roughly one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.9% of the 929 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is EWR to SRQ compared with the rest of the country?
78.1% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of about a point in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on EWR to SRQ?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.6% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 68.6%, 22 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are July delays on EWR to SRQ?
July is the weakest month at 50.9% on time, compared with 87.0% in February. Across the year that is 36 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- SRQ to EWR — the return legseparate record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Republic Airways on EWR to SRQ85.9%
- United Airlines on EWR to SRQ76.8%
- EWR to MCO, a related route77.9%
- ATL to SRQ, a related route80.8%
- EWR to ATL, a related route76.9%
- Republic Airways on-time record85.9%
- United Airlines on-time record76.8%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. EWR to SRQ and SRQ to EWR are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.