Carrier route record
UAEWR→SRQ
United Airlines · Newark to Sarasota
- Flights
- 792
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- 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 SRQ lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 792 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 SRQ from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 775 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.1%
Every carrier on EWR to SRQ, 929 flights
These figures cover 792 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.8% 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 SRQ
United flew 792 of the 929 flights on EWR to SRQ, most of the route. Its 76.8% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 85.9% to United at 76.8%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 137 | 85.9% | 43 min | 6.57% | A− |
| United Airlines (this page) | 792 | 76.8% | 74 min | 1.77% | 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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am249 flights90.7%
- 8am–11am91 flights72.4%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm89 flights75.3%
- 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 90.7% 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.
Across the year
United on EWR to SRQ through the year
July is the worst month at 51.9% on time, 34 points below April, the best at 85.9%. 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 86 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 80.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 65.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to SRQ runs when it is late
United on EWR to SRQ often beats the schedule: 303 of 775 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 180 late arrivals split 58 under half an hour, 54 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 68 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early303 flights39.1%
- Within 15 min292 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late58 flights7.5%
- 30–59 min late54 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late39 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late29 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 775 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
41 of 184 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 37 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on EWR to SRQ
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 8 hours 9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 8 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 July 2026 | 6 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 August 2026 | 6 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 June 2026 | 5 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 June 2026 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 13,253 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 90.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.77% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.8% 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 85.3% on time across 792 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 792 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 United on EWR to SRQ
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 792 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 76.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 775 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to SRQ, every carrier
- United on SRQ to EWR, the return leg
- Republic Airways on EWR to SRQ85.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.