Carrier route record
UASRQ→EWR
United Airlines · Sarasota to Newark
- Flights
- 792
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on SRQ to EWR earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 792 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's SRQ to EWR record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 776 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.4%
Every carrier on SRQ to EWR, 929 flights
These figures cover 792 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on SRQ to EWR
United flew 792 of the 929 flights on SRQ to EWR, most of the route. Its 85.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 85.3% to Republic at 78.9%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 792 | 85.3% | 97 min | 1.77% | A |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 137 | 78.9% | 114 min | 10.22% | B− |
Flight by flight
United flight numbers on SRQ 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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am363 flights93.9%
- 8am–11am55 flights92.7%
- 11am–2pm285 flights77.8%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm89 flights69.3%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.9% of the time, against 69.3% for the evening window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on SRQ to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 64.8% on time, 32 points below September, the best at 96.7%. 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 86 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 88.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.3%, a spread of 10 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on SRQ to EWR runs when it is late
United on SRQ to EWR often beats the schedule: 292 of 776 completed flights, 38%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 114 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 53 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early292 flights37.6%
- Within 15 min370 flights47.7%
- 15–29 min late33 flights4.3%
- 30–59 min late28 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late24 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late29 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 776 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 114 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 24 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on SRQ to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 August 2026, 10 hours 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The five worst days are spread across August, May and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2026 | 10 hours 35 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 May 2026 | 9 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 7 hours 52 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 August 2026 | 7 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 6 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 11,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%National Airspace System
- 28%Carrier
- 2%Extreme weather
39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. The split is drawn from 11,011 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 93.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.77% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
6.8% 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 1,034 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 76.8% on time across 792 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 792 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 United on SRQ to EWR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 792 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 85.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 776 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SRQ to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to SRQ, the return leg
- Republic Airways on SRQ to EWR78.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- 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.