Carrier route record

B6TPA→EWR

JetBlue Airways · Tampa to Newark

Flights: 287
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 11%
Carriers: 2

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

JetBlue on TPA 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 287 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so JetBlue on TPA to EWR runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 121 extra late arrivals.

On time

65.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 275 completed flights

Avg delay

82 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.83%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.1%

Every carrier on TPA to EWR, 2,660 flights

These figures cover 287 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.3% 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 TPA to EWR

JetBlue flew 287 of the 2,660 flights on TPA to EWR, about 11% of it. Its 65.5% on time is 11 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 77.4% to JetBlue at 65.5%.

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 TPA to EWR
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
United Airlines	2,373	77.4%	80 min	1.98%	B
JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample	287	65.5%	82 min	3.83%	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 51 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–8am87 flights91.9%
8am–11am22 flights—
11am–2pm16 flights—
2pm–5pm43 flights58.1%
5pm–8pm108 flights41.2%
8pm–5am11 flights—

Scale runs 35% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 41.2% on time, against 91.9% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 108 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

JetBlue on TPA to EWR through the year

Jul–Sep 2025148 flights66.9%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights49.3%
Apr–Jun 202661 flights82.0%

Scale runs 40% to 85%. 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 65.5% on time across 287 flights.

JetBlue on TPA to EWR did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 82.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 49.3%, a swing of 33 points on roughly 96 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 70.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 56.4%. 14 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. National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 7,799 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.

National Airspace System
54%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
Carrier
11%

35% 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 7,799 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 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 7,799 reported delay minutes.

54% 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 4,222 minutes out of 7,799, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations run at 3.83%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

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. 15.3% 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 997 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 75.5% on time across 286 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 287 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 TPA to EWR

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.83% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 275 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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