Carrier route record
B6PBI→EWR
JetBlue Airways · West Palm Beach to Newark
- Flights
- 655
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on PBI to EWR sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 655 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on PBI to EWR runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 624 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
75.8%
Every carrier on PBI to EWR, 3,394 flights
These figures cover 655 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 PBI to EWR
JetBlue flew 655 of the 3,394 flights on PBI to EWR, about 19% of it. Its 71.5% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 77.9% to Spirit at 51.4%. 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 | 2,619 | 77.9% | 92 min | 2.33% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page) | 655 | 71.5% | 76 min | 4.43% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 120 | 51.4% | 68 min | 12.50% | F− |
Flight by flight
JetBlue flight numbers on PBI to EWR
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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 48 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am85 flights97.5%
- 8am–11am146 flights83.2%
- 11am–2pm115 flights83.0%
- 2pm–5pm13 flights—
- 5pm–8pm245 flights49.1%
- 8pm–5am51 flights77.6%
Scale runs 40% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 49.1% on time, against 97.5% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 245 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on PBI to EWR through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 92.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. December was the busiest month here, with 77 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 81.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on PBI to EWR runs when it is late
The 178 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 49 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 86 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights23.6%
- Within 15 min299 flights47.9%
- 15–29 min late43 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late49 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights8.8%
- 2+ hours late31 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 624 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 172 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 33 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 JetBlue on PBI to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 October 2025, 7 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2025 | 7 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 July 2026 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 February 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 April 2026 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 October 2025 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%National Airspace System
- 16%Carrier
- 1%Security
- 0%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 to one. The split is drawn from 13,509 reported delay minutes.
37% 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 4,996 minutes out of 14,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 4.43%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 costs
13.8% 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 1,024 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 73.8% on time across 659 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 655 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 PBI to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.43% 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. 624 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PBI to EWR, every carrier
- JetBlue on EWR to PBI, the return leg
- United Airlines on PBI to EWR77.9%
- Spirit Airlines on PBI to EWR51.4%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Palm Beach International (PBI) 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.