OnTimeStats

Airline on-time performance

Spirit Airlines

Data through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS
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On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.4%of scheduled flights

based on 152,066 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

Arrival performance

How this airline's flights land

System-wide arrival outcomes across every route this carrier flies.

71%of this carrier's flights arrived on time
(within 15 min of schedule)
  • On time71%
  • 15–59 min late15%
  • 1–2 hr late7%
  • 2 hr+ late4%
  • Cancelled or diverted4%

Arrival outcomes for this carrier's flights. Last segment = cancelled or diverted (diverted flights are not separately tracked for carriers).

Bad day: 1 in 10 flights arrives more than 65 min late.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline32%
  • Weather59%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 5,185 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Route rankings

Most reliable

Best routes

OAK → LAS89%ACY → TPA88%SNA → LAS88%LAS → LAX86%LAS → SNA86%LAS → RNO86%SJC → LAS86%RNO → LAS86%LAS → BUR85%IAH → LAX85%

Least reliable

Worst routes

AUS → EWR49%ORD → RSW51%ORD → SJU53%LGA → ORD54%ORD → LGA55%MIA → LGA55%MIA → ORD55%ORD → MIA56%MCO → ORD57%FLL → EWR57%

Side by side

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.