Route reliability record
RSW→EWR
Fort Myers to Newark
- Flights
- 1,967
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,068 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 3 points 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,967 RSW to EWR flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly RSW to EWR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 95.0% of the time and Tuesday flights 85.4%, against 79.8% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,918 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.08%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
United
81.7% on time across 1,719 flights
These figures cover 1,967 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on RSW to EWR
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| United Airlines | 1,719 | 81.7% | 85 min | 2.04% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 247 | 66.0% | 99 min | 2.43% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on RSW to EWR
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Fort Myers to Newark
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 3 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. RSW → EWRFort Myers to Newark | United Airlines | 80.0% | 81.7% | 2.04% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 2477 15:25 |
| 2. RSW → JFKFort Myers to New York | Delta Air Lines | 76.3% | 80.4% | 5.08% | 8pm–5am, Wed | — |
| 3. RSW → JFKFort Myers to New York | JetBlue Airways | 71.6% | 75.4% | 5.08% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 4. RSW → LGAFort Myers to New York | Delta Air Lines | 67.2% | 70.6% | 4.78% | 8am–11am, Sat | DL 379 11:11 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am422 flights95.0%
- 8am–11am211 flights92.8%
- 11am–2pm450 flights83.0%
- 2pm–5pm295 flights67.7%
- 5pm–8pm465 flights66.3%
- 8pm–5am124 flights72.0%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.0% of the time, against 66.3% for the evening window. That is 29 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 465 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter RSW to EWR by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On RSW to EWR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 95.0% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 66.3%, a wide gap of 28.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am95.0%
- 8–11am92.8%
- 11am–2pm83.0%
- 2–5pm67.7%
- 5–8pm66.3%
- 8pm–5am72.0%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 100%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 23 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
April is the best month on the calendar at 89.0% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 229 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 70.7%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 34,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%National Airspace System
- 38%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 34,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 34,156 reported delay minutes.
44% 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 15,000 minutes out of 34,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.08% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.6% 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 1,068 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 78.4% on time across 1,966 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 1,967 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in EWR after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 89.0% on time and October 66.5%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 1,918 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
RSW to EWR questions
How often is RSW to EWR delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.2% of the 1,967 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is RSW to EWR compared with the rest of the country?
79.8% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 3 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on RSW to EWR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 95.0% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 66.3%, 29 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are October delays on RSW to EWR?
October is the weakest month at 66.5% on time, compared with 89.0% in April. Across the year that is 23 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to RSW — the return legseparate record
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- United Airlines on RSW to EWR81.7%
- JetBlue Airways on RSW to EWR66.0%
- RSW to ORD, a related route76.4%
- MCO to EWR, a related route75.0%
- RSW to ATL, a related route85.4%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record100.0%
- United Airlines on-time record81.7%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record66.0%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. RSW to EWR and EWR to RSW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.