Carrier route record
UARSW→EWR
United Airlines · Fort Myers to Newark
- Flights
- 1,707
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- 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 EWR lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 1,707 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate United on RSW to EWR from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,671 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.76%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
79.6%
Every carrier on RSW to EWR, 2,017 flights
These figures cover 1,707 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% 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
United against every carrier on RSW to EWR
United flew 1,707 of the 2,017 flights on RSW to EWR, most of the route. Its 81.2% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 100.0% to JetBlue at 70.5%. Two 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 (this page) | 1,707 | 81.2% | 89 min | 1.76% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 309 | 70.5% | 99 min | 1.94% | C |
Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 30 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–8am416 flights94.7%
- 8am–11am187 flights92.9%
- 11am–2pm429 flights84.2%
- 2pm–5pm254 flights68.1%
- 5pm–8pm333 flights64.8%
- 8pm–5am88 flights76.2%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 64.8% on time, against 94.7% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 429 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on RSW to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 67.0% on time, 24 points below April, the best at 91.1%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. March was the busiest month here, with 203 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.2%. 13 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. National Airspace System accounts for 51% of the 28,000 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.
- 51%National Airspace System
- 30%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
51% 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 14,000 minutes out of 28,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 27,940 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 94.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.76% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.35%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 runs 79.9% on time across 1,709 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 1,707 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.
What to do with this
Booking United on RSW to EWR
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 91.1% on time and July 67.0%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,671 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- RSW to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to RSW, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on RSW to EWR70.5%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.04 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.