Carrier route record
UAEWR→TPA
United Airlines · Newark to Tampa
- Flights
- 2,333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 93%
- 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 TPA lands a B, 4 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 2,333 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United 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
81.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,279 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.19%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on EWR to TPA, 2,503 flights
These figures cover 2,333 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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
United against every carrier on EWR to TPA
United flew 2,333 of the 2,503 flights on EWR to TPA, most of the route. Its 81.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 81.0% to JetBlue at 79.6%. 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) | 2,333 | 81.0% | 71 min | 2.19% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 170 | 79.6% | 79 min | 1.76% | B |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on EWR to TPA
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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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am345 flights92.2%
- 8am–11am527 flights82.5%
- 11am–2pm278 flights82.8%
- 2pm–5pm579 flights79.7%
- 5pm–8pm455 flights75.5%
- 8pm–5am149 flights69.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 92.2% of the time, against 69.0% for the overnight window. That is 23 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 579 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on EWR to TPA through the year
July is the worst month at 72.6% on time, 18 points below April, the best at 90.2%. 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 246 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.5%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on EWR to TPA runs when it is late
United on EWR to TPA often beats the schedule: 920 of 2,279 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 432 late arrivals split 149 under half an hour, 130 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 153 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early920 flights40.4%
- Within 15 min927 flights40.7%
- 15–29 min late149 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late130 flights5.7%
- 1–2 hours late86 flights3.8%
- 2+ hours late67 flights2.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,279 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
120 of 414 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. In the other direction, 138 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 United on EWR to TPA
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 August 2026, 16 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | 16 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 August 2026 | 11 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 December 2025 | 8 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 July 2026 | 6 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 December 2025 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
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 31,000 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%National Airspace System
- 26%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 30,807 reported delay minutes.
32% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 9,867 minutes out of 31,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.13%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.7% 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 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 runs 79.4% on time across 2,335 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 2,333 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 TPA
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 90.2% on time and July 72.6%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,279 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to TPA, every carrier
- United on TPA to EWR, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on EWR to TPA79.6%
- United Airlines 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.