Route reliability record
FLL→EWR
Fort Lauderdale to Newark
- Flights
- 4,666
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,065 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.7% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about seven flights in ten arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 4,666 FLL to EWR flights, of which United Airlines flew 2,721 at 78.1% on time.
Best time to fly FLL to EWR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.1% of the time and Wednesday flights 79.3%, against 71.1% for the route overall.
United Airlines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 78.1% on time across 2,721 flights.
Key figures
On time
71.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 4,476 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.71%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
United
78.1% on time across 2,721 flights
These figures cover 4,666 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.8% 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 FLL to EWR
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 78.1% of the time; Spirit Airlines manages 58.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 887 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 2,721 | 78.1% | 82 min | 2.57% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,058 | 62.5% | 69 min | 4.25% | D− |
| Spirit Airlines | 887 | 58.9% | 70 min | 6.54% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 6.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on FLL to EWR
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Fort Lauderdale to Newark
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. FLL → EWRFort Lauderdale to Newark | United Airlines | 76.1% | 78.1% | 2.57% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. PBI → EWRWest Palm Beach to Newark | United Airlines | 76.1% | 77.9% | 2.33% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 2158 06:00 |
| 3. PBI → ISPWest Palm Beach to Islip | JetBlue Airways | 75.4% | 76.8% | 1.85% | 5am–8am, Wed | B6 544 10:09 |
| 4. PBI → JFKWest Palm Beach to New York | JetBlue Airways | 74.3% | 77.5% | 4.12% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 5. MIA → EWRMiami to Newark | United Airlines | 73.7% | 75.5% | 2.37% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1864 07:07 |
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 37 points, against 19 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am749 flights92.1%
- 8am–11am824 flights83.6%
- 11am–2pm901 flights72.4%
- 2pm–5pm725 flights61.9%
- 5pm–8pm777 flights57.7%
- 8pm–5am690 flights55.1%
Scale runs 45% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 55.1% on time, against 92.1% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 901 flights scheduled in it.
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Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On FLL to EWR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.1% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 55.1%, a wide gap of 37.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.1%
- 8–11am83.6%
- 11am–2pm72.4%
- 2–5pm61.9%
- 5–8pm57.7%
- 8pm–5am55.1%
best all US flightsScale 45% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 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.
December is the weak month at 61.7% on time, against 86.1% in May. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. January was the busiest month here, with 502 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 59.9%, a spread of 19 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
National Airspace System accounts for 45% of the 97,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%National Airspace System
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
45% 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 44,000 minutes out of 97,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 97,219 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 92.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.71%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
12.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,065 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 75.3% on time across 4,671 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 4,666 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in EWR after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.71% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 4,476 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
FLL to EWR questions
How often is FLL to EWR delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 28.9% of the 4,666 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on FLL to EWR?
United Airlines leads at 78.1% on time across 2,721 flights. Spirit Airlines is at the other end on 58.9%, a gap of 19 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on FLL to EWR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.1% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 55.1%, 37 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 December delays on FLL to EWR?
December is the weakest month at 61.7% on time, compared with 86.1% in May. Across the year that is 24 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
- EWR to FLL — the return legseparate record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- United Airlines on FLL to EWR78.1%
- JetBlue Airways on FLL to EWR62.5%
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to EWR58.9%
- FLL to ATL, a related route71.0%
- MCO to EWR, a related route75.0%
- FLL to LGA, a related route64.8%
- United Airlines on-time record78.1%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record62.5%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record58.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. FLL to EWR and EWR to FLL 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.