Carrier route record
B6EWR→TPA
JetBlue Airways · Newark to Tampa
- Flights
- 170
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- 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 TPA lands a B, 2 points 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 170 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on EWR to TPA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 167 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.76%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on EWR to TPA, 2,503 flights
These figures cover 170 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on EWR to TPA
JetBlue flew 170 of the 2,503 flights on EWR to TPA, about 7% of it. Its 79.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 81.0% to JetBlue at 79.6%.
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 | 2,333 | 81.0% | 71 min | 2.19% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 170 | 79.6% | 79 min | 1.76% | 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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am32 flights90.6%
- 11am–2pm3 flights—
- 2pm–5pm113 flights74.5%
- 5pm–8pm20 flights—
- 8pm–5am1 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.6% of the time, against 74.5% for the afternoon window. That is 16 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 113 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on EWR to TPA through the year
- Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights68.8%
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights89.8%
- Jul–Sep 20268 flights—
Scale runs 60% 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 79.6% on time across 170 flights.
Split by quarter, JetBlue on EWR to TPA logged 24 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 78 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 60 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 8 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 79.6% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on EWR to TPA runs when it is late
JetBlue on EWR to TPA often beats the schedule: 58 of 167 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early58 flights34.7%
- Within 15 min75 flights44.9%
- 15–29 min late15 flights9.0%
- 30–59 min late5 flights3.0%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights3.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 167 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 25 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 13 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 TPA.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on EWR to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 June 2026, 4 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across June, July, November, October and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2026 | 4 hours 3 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 November 2025 | 3 hours 24 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 23 October 2025 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 2,681 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,681 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 2,681 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 927 of the 2,681 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.76% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.4% 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 997 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 64.9% on time across 171 flights, 15 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 15 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 170 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 TPA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 170 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 79.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 167 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to TPA, every carrier
- JetBlue on TPA to EWR, the return leg
- United Airlines on EWR to TPA81.0%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Tampa International (TPA) 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.