Carrier route record
UAFLL→EWR
United Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Newark
- Flights
- 2,677
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 56%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on FLL to EWR lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 2,677 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, JetBlue Airways, flew 1,004 at 62.3% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
77.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,614 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.20%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
70.4%
Every carrier on FLL to EWR, 4,752 flights
These figures cover 2,677 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on FLL to EWR
United flew 2,677 of the 4,752 flights on FLL to EWR, most of the route. Its 77.3% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 77.3% to Spirit at 60.0%.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 2 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) | 2,677 | 77.3% | 83 min | 2.20% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,004 | 62.3% | 71 min | 3.59% | D− |
| Spirit Airlines | 1,071 | 60.0% | 71 min | 5.79% | D− |
Spirit Airlines cancels 5.8% 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.
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 2 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am419 flights93.4%
- 8am–11am535 flights89.4%
- 11am–2pm649 flights78.4%
- 2pm–5pm508 flights65.4%
- 5pm–8pm489 flights61.2%
- 8pm–5am77 flights73.7%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.2% on time, against 93.4% 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 649 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on FLL to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 59.2% on time, 32 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 82.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.7%. 15 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 49,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 15%Carrier
- 5%Extreme weather
54% 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 27,000 minutes out of 49,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 49,051 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.20% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.15%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 78.7% on time across 2,678 flights, within about 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 2,677 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 July 59.2%, a swing of 32 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,614 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 EWR62.3%
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to EWR60.0%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.