Carrier route record
B6LAX→EWR
JetBlue Airways · Los Angeles to Newark
- Flights
- 480
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on LAX to EWR lands a B−, about a point 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 480 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Alaska Airlines, flew 490 at 91.6% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate JetBlue on LAX 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
78.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 458 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.54%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.1%
Every carrier on LAX to EWR, 4,748 flights
These figures cover 480 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 LAX to EWR
JetBlue flew 480 of the 4,748 flights on LAX to EWR, about 10% of it. Its 78.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 79.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Alaska at 91.6% to Spirit at 75.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Alaska Airlines arrives on time 91.6% of the time; United Airlines manages 77.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,526 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 490 | 91.6% | 58 min | 1.63% | A |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 480 | 78.4% | 79 min | 3.54% | B− |
| United Airlines | 3,526 | 77.7% | 77 min | 1.76% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 252 | 75.1% | 51 min | 5.16% | B− |
The spread between Alaska and United is 14 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 14 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
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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 28 points, against 14 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am81 flights93.5%
- 8am–11am68 flights68.2%
- 11am–2pm125 flights65.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am206 flights83.5%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 65.2% on time against 93.5% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 206 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on LAX to EWR through the year
- Jul–Sep 202581 flights87.2%
- Oct–Dec 2025199 flights76.7%
- Jan–Mar 20268 flights—
- Apr–Jun 202660 flights84.7%
- Jul–Sep 2026132 flights73.3%
Scale runs 65% 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 78.4% on time across 480 flights.
JetBlue on LAX to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 87.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 73.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 120 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 86.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.9%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on LAX to EWR runs when it is late
JetBlue on LAX to EWR often beats the schedule: 170 of 458 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 99 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 22 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 46 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early170 flights37.1%
- Within 15 min189 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late31 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late22 flights4.8%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late23 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 458 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
22 of 107 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 14 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on LAX to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 November 2025, 11 hours 15 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 November 2025 | 11 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 July 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 6 July 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 July 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 December 2025 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 7,770 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 21%Carrier
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,770 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 43 to one. The split is drawn from 7,770 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 2,802 minutes out of 7,770, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 3.54%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
10.0% 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.
At 2,454 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.5% on time across 480 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 480 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 LAX to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.54% 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. 458 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LAX to EWR, every carrier
- JetBlue on EWR to LAX, the return leg
- Alaska Airlines on LAX to EWR91.6%
- United Airlines on LAX to EWR77.7%
- Spirit Airlines on LAX to EWR75.1%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.