Carrier route record
B6RSW→EWR
JetBlue Airways · Fort Myers to Newark
- Flights
- 247
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on RSW to EWR draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 247 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on RSW to EWR runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 113 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 241 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.43%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.8%
Every carrier on RSW to EWR, 1,967 flights
These figures cover 247 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 20.3% 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 RSW to EWR
JetBlue flew 247 of the 1,967 flights on RSW to EWR, about 13% of it. Its 66.0% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 100.0% to JetBlue at 66.0%. 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.
| 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 Airways (this page)thin sample | 247 | 66.0% | 99 min | 2.43% | C |
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Departure window
When JetBlue 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 247 flights.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am3 flights—
- 11am–2pm21 flights—
- 2pm–5pm41 flights65.0%
- 5pm–8pm135 flights66.2%
- 8pm–5am36 flights61.8%
Scale runs 55% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 66.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 4 points.
Across the year
JetBlue on RSW to EWR through the year
- Jul–Sep 202522 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202594 flights65.9%
- Jan–Mar 202659 flights48.2%
- Apr–Jun 202672 flights76.4%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. 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 66.0% on time across 247 flights.
JetBlue on RSW to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 76.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 48.2%, a swing of 28 points on roughly 82 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, Monday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 51.6%, a spread of 27 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on RSW to EWR runs when it is late
JetBlue on RSW to EWR often beats the schedule: 72 of 241 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When JetBlue on RSW to EWR is late it tends to be very late: 49 of its 82 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 22 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early72 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min87 flights36.1%
- 15–29 min late14 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late19 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights11.2%
- 2+ hours late22 flights9.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 241 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 82 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on RSW to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 March 2026, 9 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 March 2026 | 9 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 November 2025 | 5 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 May 2026 | 5 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 April 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 November 2025 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 8,103 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,103 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 8,103 reported delay minutes.
34% 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 2,742 minutes out of 8,103, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.43% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
20.3% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.2% on time across 245 flights, 12 points above 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 12 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 247 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 RSW to EWR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 247 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 66.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 241 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- RSW to EWR, every carrier
- JetBlue on EWR to RSW, the return leg
- United Airlines on RSW to EWR81.7%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.