Carrier route record
UARSW→EWR
United Airlines · Fort Myers to Newark
- Flights
- 1,719
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 87%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. Roughly 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 1,719 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's RSW to EWR record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,676 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.04%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.8%
Every carrier on RSW to EWR, 1,967 flights
These figures cover 1,719 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on RSW to EWR
United flew 1,719 of the 1,967 flights on RSW to EWR, most of the route. Its 81.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 79.8%. 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 66.0%. 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) | 1,719 | 81.7% | 85 min | 2.04% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 247 | 66.0% | 99 min | 2.43% | C |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on RSW to EWR
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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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am411 flights94.8%
- 8am–11am208 flights93.1%
- 11am–2pm429 flights84.4%
- 2pm–5pm254 flights68.1%
- 5pm–8pm329 flights66.2%
- 8pm–5am88 flights76.2%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.8% of the time, against 66.2% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 429 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on RSW to EWR through the year
April is the best month on the calendar at 91.1% 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 203 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.2%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on RSW to EWR runs when it is late
United on RSW to EWR often beats the schedule: 691 of 1,676 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 306 late arrivals split 79 under half an hour, 91 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 136 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early691 flights41.2%
- Within 15 min679 flights40.5%
- 15–29 min late79 flights4.7%
- 30–59 min late91 flights5.4%
- 1–2 hours late79 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late57 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,676 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 272 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 32 made it up before arrival. 66 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on RSW to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 July 2026, 17 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across July, June, May and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2026 | 17 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 June 2026 | 17 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 May 2026 | 15 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 May 2026 | 12 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 February 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 47% of the 26,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%National Airspace System
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 26,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 26,053 reported delay minutes.
47% 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 12,000 minutes out of 26,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 2.04% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.47%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.5% on time across 1,721 flights, 3 points below 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,719 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 October 70.2%, a swing of 21 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 1,676 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 EWR66.0%
- United Airlines 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
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.