Carrier route record
B6TPA→EWR
JetBlue Airways · Tampa to Newark
- Flights
- 171
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 7%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with JetBlue Airways.
JetBlue on TPA to EWR draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 171 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so JetBlue on TPA to EWR runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 124 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 168 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.17%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on TPA to EWR, 2,506 flights
These figures cover 171 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
JetBlue against every carrier on TPA to EWR
JetBlue flew 171 of the 2,506 flights on TPA to EWR, about 7% of it. Its 64.9% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 79.4% to JetBlue at 64.9%.
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 | 2,335 | 79.4% | 80 min | 2.06% | B |
| JetBlue Airways (this page)thin sample | 171 | 64.9% | 78 min | 1.17% | D |
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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 41 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am25 flights—
- 8am–11am30 flights83.3%
- 11am–2pm16 flights—
- 2pm–5pm43 flights58.1%
- 5pm–8pm46 flights41.9%
- 8pm–5am11 flights—
Scale runs 35% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 41.9% on time, against 83.3% 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 46 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
JetBlue on TPA to EWR through the year
- Jul–Sep 202524 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights49.3%
- Apr–Jun 202661 flights82.0%
- Jul–Sep 20268 flights—
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 64.9% on time across 171 flights.
Split by quarter, JetBlue on TPA to EWR logged 24 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 78 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 61 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 8 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 64.9% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late JetBlue on TPA to EWR runs when it is late
The 59 late arrivals split 12 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early25 flights14.9%
- Within 15 min84 flights50.0%
- 15–29 min late12 flights7.1%
- 30–59 min late23 flights13.7%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late14 flights8.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 168 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 54 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 10 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at EWR.
The worst days
Worst days for JetBlue on TPA to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 4 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 3 hours 49 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 May 2026 | 3 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 November 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 June 2026 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why JetBlue runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 55% of the 4,613 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%National Airspace System
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%Carrier
55% 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 2,546 minutes out of 4,613, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 4,613 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 83.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.58%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.6% on time across 170 flights, 15 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 15 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 171 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: treat all of this as provisional. 171 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 64.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 168 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to EWR, every carrier
- JetBlue on EWR to TPA, the return leg
- United Airlines on TPA to EWR79.4%
- JetBlue Airways network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) 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.