Carrier route record
UATPA→EWR
United Airlines · Tampa to Newark
- Flights
- 2,335
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 93%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on TPA to EWR lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 2,335 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate United on TPA 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
79.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,276 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.4%
Every carrier on TPA to EWR, 2,506 flights
These figures cover 2,335 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% 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 TPA to EWR
United flew 2,335 of the 2,506 flights on TPA to EWR, most of the route. Its 79.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 79.4% to JetBlue at 64.9%. 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) | 2,335 | 79.4% | 80 min | 2.06% | B |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 171 | 64.9% | 78 min | 1.17% | D |
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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–8am354 flights95.4%
- 8am–11am440 flights88.3%
- 11am–2pm382 flights84.7%
- 2pm–5pm585 flights70.7%
- 5pm–8pm468 flights66.8%
- 8pm–5am106 flights72.3%
Scale runs 60% to 100%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 95.4% of the time, against 66.8% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 585 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on TPA to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 65.1% on time, 28 points below April, the best at 93.2%. 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 246 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 73.7%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on TPA to EWR runs when it is late
United on TPA to EWR often beats the schedule: 753 of 2,276 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 468 late arrivals split 132 under half an hour, 133 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 203 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early753 flights33.1%
- Within 15 min1,055 flights46.4%
- 15–29 min late132 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late133 flights5.8%
- 1–2 hours late108 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late95 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 2,276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
54 of 411 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 111 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on TPA to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 11 hours 57 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 11 hours 57 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 July 2026 | 7 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 12 June 2026 | 7 hours 5 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 May 2026 | 6 hours 50 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 July 2026 | 6 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 54% of the 37,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%National Airspace System
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
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 20,000 minutes out of 37,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 37,331 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.06% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.47%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.9% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 runs 81.0% on time across 2,333 flights, within 2 points 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 2,335 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 TPA to EWR
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 93.2% on time and July 65.1%, a swing of 28 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 2,276 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- TPA to EWR, every carrier
- United on EWR to TPA, the return leg
- JetBlue Airways on TPA to EWR64.9%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Tampa International (TPA) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
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.