FLL → EWR Flight Reliability

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Origin · FLLNo disruption reported

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Updated 08:53 UTC

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Destination · EWRNo disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Updated 08:51 UTC

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

43/ 100Weak

Better than 6% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 15,386 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

72.9%

10,880 of 14,919

Cancellation rate

2.65%

407 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-6 min

Average 13.4 min

Severe delays

12.4%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

80 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

15,386

3 carriers

FLL → EWR arrives on time 72.9% of the time; the return trip, EWR → FLL, arrives on time 75.3% of the time, a 2.4-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.

FLL → EWR spends 28.6 minutes on the ground on a 1,065-mile trip: 19.1 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at FLL and 9.5 minutes from touchdown to gate at EWR.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

This route's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 97% of 4,598 comparable routes.

A typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth run 81 minutes worse than that.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,598 in the comparison.

Why FLL → EWR flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

FLL → EWR cancelled 407 of 15,386 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 38. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 51.8% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 73 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather51.8%

Airline25.1%

Air traffic23.1%

Security0.0%

Of 407 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 73

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

211 cancellations, 51.8% of the total.

The airline1 in 151

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

102 cancellations, 25.1% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 164

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

94 cancellations, 23.1% of the total.

Security—

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.

407 coded cancellations were recorded on FLL → EWR; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

75 min late

against a median of 6 min early

Arrived an hour or more late12.4%

Typical delay when late80 min

Cancelled2.65%

Landed somewhere else0.39%

FLL → EWR has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 81 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 15,386 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at EWR after arriving from FLL.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, FLL → EWR arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	40%	Likely to miss
45 min	26%	High risk
60 min	20%	High risk
90 min	12%	Some risk
120 min	8.0%	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 2.65% of the time and diverts 0.39% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 14,919 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 75 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 15,386 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

FLL → EWR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 90.4% of the time, against 56.0% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 34.4 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (FLL).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 13.7 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 3.6 points.

On-time arrival rate for FLL to EWR by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

40–49
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 (472 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for FLL to EWR. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM	93.0% on time233 flights	93.2% on time224 flights	94.2% on time224 flights	92.0% on time251 flights	93.4% on time244 flights	90.0% on time231 flights	90.6% on time258 flights
7 AM–8 AM	90.0% on time226 flights	93.5% on time224 flights	93.7% on time226 flights	90.0% on time224 flights	90.2% on time226 flights	84.4% on time224 flights	88.4% on time220 flights
8 AM–9 AM	86.6% on time170 flights	90.9% on time159 flights	96.7% on time154 flights	84.8% on time162 flights	89.2% on time170 flights	87.0% on time163 flights	83.4% on time159 flights
9 AM–10 AM	65 flights, too few to score	74 flights, too few to score	57 flights, too few to score	72 flights, too few to score	61 flights, too few to score	52 flights, too few to score	71 flights, too few to score
10 AM–11 AM	93 flights, too few to score	88 flights, too few to score	90 flights, too few to score	97 flights, too few to score	95 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	109 flights, too few to score
11 AM–12 PM	82.7% on time136 flights	80.0% on time139 flights	85.0% on time136 flights	75.4% on time136 flights	86.8% on time138 flights	108 flights, too few to score	73.8% on time131 flights
12 PM–1 PM	74.1% on time139 flights	75.8% on time135 flights	71.5% on time138 flights	70.5% on time139 flights	67.6% on time141 flights	75.4% on time139 flights	61.4% on time136 flights
1 PM–2 PM	105 flights, too few to score	92 flights, too few to score	96 flights, too few to score	105 flights, too few to score	104 flights, too few to score	102 flights, too few to score	100 flights, too few to score
2 PM–3 PM	63.8% on time129 flights	92 flights, too few to score	93 flights, too few to score	108 flights, too few to score	55.8% on time123 flights	94 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score
3 PM–4 PM	61.9% on time122 flights	61.5% on time136 flights	64.7% on time138 flights	52.8% on time128 flights	61.2% on time128 flights	118 flights, too few to score	44.2% on time122 flights
4 PM–5 PM	106 flights, too few to score	117 flights, too few to score	109 flights, too few to score	97 flights, too few to score	102 flights, too few to score	90 flights, too few to score	104 flights, too few to score
5 PM–6 PM	65.9% on time141 flights	63.8% on time145 flights	73.0% on time145 flights	59.1% on time136 flights	56.5% on time140 flights	66.7% on time150 flights	52.0% on time138 flights
6 PM–7 PM	93 flights, too few to score	93 flights, too few to score	101 flights, too few to score	93 flights, too few to score	93 flights, too few to score	87 flights, too few to score	96 flights, too few to score
7 PM–8 PM	104 flights, too few to score	89 flights, too few to score	91 flights, too few to score	97 flights, too few to score	109 flights, too few to score	81 flights, too few to score	88 flights, too few to score
8 PM–9 PM	56.1% on time312 flights	68.6% on time297 flights	64.3% on time302 flights	54.0% on time302 flights	63.2% on time310 flights	62.9% on time287 flights	54.2% on time314 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM90.4%

9 AM–12 PM83.4%

12–3 PM66.5%

3–6 PM61.1%

6–9 PM59.6%

9 PM–5 AM56.0%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why FLL → EWR runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Air traffic control45.6%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Late-arriving aircraft28.4%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline22.7%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Weather3.0%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.3%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for FLL → EWR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

The harder-hit end is EWR, where the flight lands. Its figure counts departures from EWR, so it says more about how that airport copes than about this route. Bad weather cancels 3.3 times the normal rate at EWR against 2.1 times at FLL. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: FLL 3.3% against 1.6%, EWR 6.9% against 2.1%. 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 FLL and EWR in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	FLL	EWR
Cancelled in bad weather	3.3%	6.9%
Cancelled in normal hours	1.6%	2.1%
Arrived on time, bad weather	54.6%	65.8%
Arrived on time, normal hours	73.3%	80.0%
Departures in bad weather	13,418	51,613

Spirit Airlines (5.3% cancelled against 2.7% for the other carriers at FLL) cancelled more departures from FLL in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly better.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at FLL

All departures from FLL

Cancellation rates in bad weather at FLL for the airlines that fly FLL to EWR, against the other carriers at FLL in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
United Airlines	1,291	3.1%about level	3.5%
JetBlue	2,832	3.2%about level	3.1%
Spirit Airlines	3,199	5.3%above the others	2.7%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from FLL and EWR, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from FLL on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: FLL (airlines), EWR, 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.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
United Airlines	8,111	78.8%	2.47%	-9 min	9.7%
Spirit Airlines	4,116	67.9%	2.94%	-3 min	14.7%
JetBlue	3,159	64.3%	2.72%	1 min	16.4%

United Airlines flew 52.7% of the 15,386 flights listed.

United Airlines arrived on time 14.5 percentage points more often than JetBlue on this route.

Other ways to fly Miami to New York

Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.

Other ways to fly Miami to New York
Route	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Score
MIA→LGA Miami to New York	17,929	71.1%	2.72%	-4 min	42
MIA→JFK Miami to New York	15,830	71.5%	2.14%	-4 min	42
FLL→EWR this route Fort Lauderdale to Newark	15,386	72.9%	2.65%	-6 min	43
FLL→LGA Fort Lauderdale to New York	14,066	71.6%	2.63%	-4 min	43
MIA→EWR Miami to Newark	12,771	72.4%	2.66%	-5 min	42
FLL→JFK Fort Lauderdale to New York	11,942	71.8%	2.84%	-4 min	40

Flying to EWR from the Miami area? Compare FLL, MIA for EWR, 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.

Flights on this route
Flight	Scheduled	Operations	On time
B6706 JetBlue	8:59 PM	867	54.6%
B6306 JetBlue	6:00 AM	626	88.0%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon72.7%

Tue77.9%

Wed77.1%

Thu69.9%

Fri73.5%

Sat72.7%

Sun66.8%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 11.1 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 21.2 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 70.8% against 73.3% in the 12 months before — declining by 2.5 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 15,386 FLL → EWR 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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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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FLL→EWR

Right now

Route reliability

What stands out

Why FLL → EWR flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why FLL → EWR runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at FLL

Airlines on this route

Other ways to fly Miami to New York

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology