Route profile
EWR→FLL
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Newark to Fort Lauderdale, 1,065 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 13% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 15,393 flights. How this is calculated
EWR → FLL arrives on time 75.3% of the time; the return trip, FLL → EWR, arrives on time 72.9% of the time, a 2.4-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
EWR → FLL spends 30.7 minutes on the ground on a 1,065-mile trip: 23.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at EWR and 7.1 minutes from touchdown to gate at FLL.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Why EWR → FLL flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
EWR → FLL cancelled 432 of 15,393 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 36. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 50.2% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 71 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 432 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
217 cancellations, 50.2% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
109 cancellations, 25.2% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
106 cancellations, 24.5% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
432 coded cancellations were recorded on EWR → FLL; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
62 min late
against a median of 8 min early
EWR → FLL has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 8 min early, but the worst tenth are 70 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 15,393 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at FLL after arriving from EWR.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 37% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 24% | High risk |
| 60 min | 17% | High risk |
| 90 min | 10% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 6.6% | Some risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 2.81% of the time and diverts 0.20% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 14,930 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 62 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 15,393 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
EWR → FLL flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.1% of the time, against 62.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 25.1 percentage points.
By day and hour
On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (EWR).
Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 9.1 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 3.0 points.
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On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time
- 50–59
- 60–69
- 70–79
- 80–89
- 90–99
- Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.
No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures before 6 AM and after 9 PM (873 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.
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| Hour | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 6 AM–7 AM | 87.1% on time283 flights | 90.8% on time281 flights | 90.2% on time271 flights | 91.8% on time297 flights | 89.6% on time291 flights | 82.9% on time294 flights | 87.8% on time297 flights |
| 7 AM–8 AM | 89.3% on time157 flights | 83.8% on time164 flights | 88.0% on time169 flights | 86.5% on time157 flights | 88.3% on time155 flights | 81.8% on time147 flights | 81.5% on time167 flights |
| 8 AM–9 AM | 107 flights, too few to score | 98 flights, too few to score | 100 flights, too few to score | 109 flights, too few to score | 113 flights, too few to score | 69 flights, too few to score | 100 flights, too few to score |
| 9 AM–10 AM | 92 flights, too few to score | 84 flights, too few to score | 87 flights, too few to score | 83 flights, too few to score | 92 flights, too few to score | 102 flights, too few to score | 92 flights, too few to score |
| 10 AM–11 AM | 82.6% on time122 flights | 102 flights, too few to score | 108 flights, too few to score | 104 flights, too few to score | 73.9% on time120 flights | 118 flights, too few to score | 105 flights, too few to score |
| 11 AM–12 PM | 80.5% on time171 flights | 81.7% on time174 flights | 83.6% on time180 flights | 78.9% on time170 flights | 74.6% on time172 flights | 69.8% on time175 flights | 72.2% on time174 flights |
| 12 PM–1 PM | 70 flights, too few to score | 74 flights, too few to score | 60 flights, too few to score | 92 flights, too few to score | 67 flights, too few to score | 61 flights, too few to score | 83 flights, too few to score |
| 1 PM–2 PM | 106 flights, too few to score | 119 flights, too few to score | 106 flights, too few to score | 75.8% on time123 flights | 110 flights, too few to score | 100 flights, too few to score | 66.4% on time122 flights |
| 2 PM–3 PM | 67.9% on time146 flights | 78.8% on time142 flights | 76.9% on time144 flights | 63.4% on time134 flights | 71.3% on time134 flights | 68.8% on time128 flights | 70.1% on time144 flights |
| 3 PM–4 PM | 106 flights, too few to score | 93 flights, too few to score | 96 flights, too few to score | 97 flights, too few to score | 111 flights, too few to score | 92 flights, too few to score | 83 flights, too few to score |
| 4 PM–5 PM | 111 flights, too few to score | 85.5% on time126 flights | 79.4% on time129 flights | 116 flights, too few to score | 69.0% on time134 flights | 115 flights, too few to score | 63.2% on time122 flights |
| 5 PM–6 PM | 64.4% on time141 flights | 78.3% on time135 flights | 70.9% on time132 flights | 63.4% on time136 flights | 70.8% on time125 flights | 73.6% on time126 flights | 67.2% on time137 flights |
| 6 PM–7 PM | 62.4% on time195 flights | 80.0% on time175 flights | 66.7% on time186 flights | 57.0% on time184 flights | 56.8% on time184 flights | 67.5% on time171 flights | 51.2% on time183 flights |
| 7 PM–8 PM | 60.8% on time152 flights | 71.0% on time142 flights | 62.9% on time136 flights | 58.9% on time154 flights | 66.4% on time146 flights | 57.5% on time124 flights | 59.4% on time151 flights |
| 8 PM–9 PM | 68.4% on time159 flights | 73.4% on time147 flights | 58.6% on time141 flights | 58.2% on time150 flights | 70.7% on time158 flights | 73.9% on time147 flights | 61.4% on time154 flights |
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 4 AM: too few flights to score
- 5 AM: 89.8% on time from 655 flights
- 6 AM: 88.6% on time from 2,014 flights
- 7 AM: 85.6% on time from 1,116 flights
- 8 AM: 82.8% on time from 696 flights
- 9 AM: 76.8% on time from 632 flights
- 10 AM: 76.1% on time from 779 flights
- 11 AM: 77.3% on time from 1,216 flights
- 12 PM: 79.0% on time from 507 flights
- 1 PM: 75.2% on time from 786 flights
- 2 PM: 71.1% on time from 972 flights
- 3 PM: 63.7% on time from 678 flights
- 4 PM: 74.1% on time from 853 flights
- 5 PM: 69.7% on time from 932 flights
- 6 PM: 63.0% on time from 1,278 flights
- 7 PM: 62.5% on time from 1,005 flights
- 8 PM: 66.4% on time from 1,056 flights
- 9 PM: 65.8% on time from 159 flights
- 10 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why EWR → FLL runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for EWR → FLL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on EWR → FLL, at 35.7%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 87.1% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 62.0%.
How this route holds up in bad weather
July 2023 – July 2026
The harder-hit end is the one the flight leaves from, where a cancellation keeps it from departing at all. Bad weather cancels 3.3 times the normal rate at EWR against 2.1 times at FLL. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: EWR 6.9% against 2.1%, FLL 3.3% against 1.6%. Flights that did leave FLL in bad weather arrived on time 54.6% of the time, against 73.3% in normal hours.
Bad weather and normal hours at the airports
Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026| Departures from | EWR | FLL |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelled in bad weather | 6.9% | 3.3% |
| Cancelled in normal hours | 2.1% | 1.6% |
| Arrived on time, bad weather | 65.8% | 54.6% |
| Arrived on time, normal hours | 80.0% | 73.3% |
| Departures in bad weather | 51,613 | 13,418 |
Of the carriers on this route, United Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 8.9% for the other carriers at EWR) cancelled the fewest departures from EWR in bad weather and Spirit Airlines (8.7% cancelled against 6.4% for the other carriers at EWR) the most.
This route’s airlines in bad weather at EWR
All departures from EWR| Airline | Bad-weather departures | Cancelled | Other carriers |
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| United Airlines | 28,226 | 5.3%below the others | 8.9% |
| JetBlue | 2,326 | 6.6%about level | 6.7% |
| Spirit Airlines | 3,882 | 8.7%above the others | 6.4% |
These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from EWR and FLL, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from EWR on every route.
Weather source and limits. In full: EWR (airlines), FLL, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
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| United Airlines | 8,114 | 77.6% | 2.49% | -9 min | 8.7% |
| Spirit Airlines | 4,123 | 73.9% | 3.44% | -8 min | 12.1% |
| JetBlue | 3,156 | 71.5% | 2.79% | -4 min | 12.4% |
United Airlines flew 52.7% of the 15,393 flights listed.
United Airlines arrived on time 6.1 percentage points more often than JetBlue on this route.
Other ways to fly New York to Miami
Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.
| Route | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGA→MIA New York to Miami | 17,949 | 74.0% | 2.69% | -8 min | 46 |
| JFK→MIA New York to Miami | 15,837 | 75.0% | 2.10% | -7 min | 51 |
| EWR→FLL this route Newark to Fort Lauderdale | 15,393 | 75.3% | 2.81% | -8 min | 49 |
| LGA→FLL New York to Fort Lauderdale | 14,072 | 72.5% | 2.86% | -6 min | 43 |
| EWR→MIA Newark to Miami | 12,777 | 75.7% | 2.65% | -8 min | 51 |
| JFK→FLL New York to Fort Lauderdale | 11,955 | 72.5% | 2.76% | -6 min | 45 |
EWR → MIA is the most reliable pairing for this journey at 75.7% on time, against 72.5% for LGA → FLL.
Flying to FLL from the New York area? Compare EWR, LGA, JFK for FLL, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| UA1364 United Airlines | 7:00 AM | 778 | 91.5% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 9.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 77.1%
- Feb: 79.6%
- Mar: 70.9%
- Apr: 77.5%
- May: 75.4%
- Jun: 79.1%
- Jul: 67.1%
- Aug: 71.8%
- Sep: 77.5%
- Oct: 81.2%
- Nov: 79.2%
- Dec: 70.4%
July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 14.1 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 54.4% from 377 flights
- August 2023: 72.1% from 389 flights
- September 2023: 74.3% from 355 flights
- October 2023: 89.0% from 376 flights
- November 2023: 85.8% from 479 flights
- December 2023: 76.2% from 540 flights
- January 2024: 75.5% from 529 flights
- February 2024: 83.8% from 488 flights
- March 2024: 67.2% from 520 flights
- April 2024: 80.5% from 506 flights
- May 2024: 75.2% from 441 flights
- June 2024: 74.2% from 354 flights
- July 2024: 68.9% from 382 flights
- August 2024: 69.4% from 363 flights
- September 2024: 76.2% from 337 flights
- October 2024: 82.8% from 384 flights
- November 2024: 78.8% from 455 flights
- December 2024: 68.6% from 504 flights
- January 2025: 79.6% from 534 flights
- February 2025: 78.8% from 471 flights
- March 2025: 73.6% from 499 flights
- April 2025: 72.2% from 442 flights
- May 2025: 65.6% from 334 flights
- June 2025: 74.0% from 277 flights
- July 2025: 73.9% from 336 flights
- August 2025: 73.7% from 357 flights
- September 2025: 82.9% from 292 flights
- October 2025: 71.1% from 365 flights
- November 2025: 72.1% from 437 flights
- December 2025: 65.8% from 488 flights
- January 2026: 76.0% from 500 flights
- February 2026: 75.6% from 441 flights
- March 2026: 72.0% from 494 flights
- April 2026: 79.1% from 465 flights
- May 2026: 86.0% from 310 flights
- June 2026: 90.3% from 270 flights
- July 2026: 72.9% from 302 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 75.6% against 74.7% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 15,393 EWR → FLL flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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