Carrier route record

B6RSW→EWR

JetBlue Airways · Fort Myers to Newark

Flights: 309
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 15%
Carriers: 3

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

JetBlue on RSW 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, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 309 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on RSW to EWR runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 71 extra late arrivals.

On time

70.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights

Avg delay

99 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.94%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.6%

Every carrier on RSW to EWR, 2,017 flights

These figures cover 309 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

JetBlue against every carrier on RSW to EWR

JetBlue flew 309 of the 2,017 flights on RSW to EWR, about 15% of it. Its 70.5% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.6%. 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 70.5%. 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 EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	1	100.0%	—	0.00%	A+
United Airlines	1,707	81.2%	89 min	1.76%	B
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample	309	70.5%	99 min	1.94%	C

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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am11 flights—
8am–11am65 flights87.5%
11am–2pm21 flights—
2pm–5pm41 flights65.0%
5pm–8pm135 flights66.2%
8pm–5am36 flights61.8%

Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.8% on time, against 87.5% for the 8am–11am 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 135 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on RSW to EWR through the year

Jul–Sep 202584 flights85.5%
Oct–Dec 202594 flights65.9%
Jan–Mar 202659 flights48.2%
Apr–Jun 202672 flights76.4%

Scale runs 40% to 90%. 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 70.5% on time across 309 flights.

JetBlue on RSW to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 85.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 48.2%, a swing of 37 points on roughly 77 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 79.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 57.5%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why JetBlue runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 8,783 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
51%
National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
13%
Extreme weather
3%

51% 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 8,783 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 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 8,783 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 2,984 minutes out of 8,783, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations sit at 1.94% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.32%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 17.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.3% on time across 307 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 309 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. 309 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 70.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 302 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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