Carrier route record

UARSW→CLE

United Airlines · Fort Myers to Cleveland

Flights: 348
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 38%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.

United on RSW to CLE earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 15 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, United's RSW to CLE record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 149 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

92.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.57%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.5%

Every carrier on RSW to CLE, 925 flights

These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

United against every carrier on RSW to CLE

United flew 348 of the 925 flights on RSW to CLE, about 38% of it. Its 92.5% on time is 13 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 92.5% to Southwest at 40.0%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on RSW to CLE
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines (this page)thin sample	348	92.5%	78 min	0.57%	A+
Frontier Airlines	572	71.8%	94 min	1.75%	C
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	5	40.0%	133 min	0.00%	F+

Departure window

When United runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 348 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm279 flights92.8%
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm69 flights91.2%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 11am–2pm window is the strongest at 92.8% on time. The full set of windows spans 2 points.

Across the year

United on RSW to CLE through the year

Jul–Sep 202542 flights95.2%
Oct–Dec 202562 flights87.1%
Jan–Mar 2026134 flights91.7%
Apr–Jun 2026110 flights95.4%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. 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 92.5% on time across 348 flights.

Quarter by quarter United on RSW to CLE held fairly steady: 95.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.1% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 95.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 96.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 88.5%. 8 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. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 69% of the 2,023 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
69%
National Airspace System
15%
Carrier
9%
Extreme weather
8%

69% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,023 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,023 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.57%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 1,025 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 93.6% on time across 348 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.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 348 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 United on RSW to CLE

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 348 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 92.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 345 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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