Carrier route record
UAFLL→EWR
United Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Newark
- Flights
- 2,721
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 58%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on FLL to EWR 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 2,721 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, JetBlue Airways, flew 1,058 at 62.5% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on FLL to EWR 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 2,640 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.57%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.1%
Every carrier on FLL to EWR, 4,666 flights
These figures cover 2,721 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% 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 FLL to EWR
United flew 2,721 of the 4,666 flights on FLL to EWR, most of the route. Its 78.1% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 71.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 78.1% to Spirit at 58.9%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 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.
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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 32 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am409 flights94.2%
- 8am–11am558 flights89.6%
- 11am–2pm656 flights79.7%
- 2pm–5pm511 flights66.6%
- 5pm–8pm489 flights62.2%
- 8pm–5am98 flights71.9%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 62.2% on time, against 94.2% 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 656 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on FLL to EWR through the year
August is the worst month at 69.7% on time, 21 points below May, the best at 90.9%. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 289 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.6%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on FLL to EWR runs when it is late
United on FLL to EWR often beats the schedule: 845 of 2,640 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 577 late arrivals split 168 under half an hour, 162 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 247 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early845 flights32.0%
- Within 15 min1,218 flights46.1%
- 15–29 min late168 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late162 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late129 flights4.9%
- 2+ hours late118 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,640 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
70 of 512 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 135 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 EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for United on FLL to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 November 2025, 20 hours 14 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2025 | 20 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 July 2026 | 16 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 October 2025 | 15 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 December 2025 | 10 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 9 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 47,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
51% 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 24,000 minutes out of 47,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 47,178 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 94.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.57%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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 costs
9.4% 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 runs 78.2% on time across 2,723 flights, within half a point 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 2,721 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 FLL to EWR
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. May runs 90.9% on time and August 69.7%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of August before you think about anything else. 2,640 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to FLL, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on FLL to EWR62.5%
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to EWR58.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.