OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Cleveland to Fort Lauderdale

1,062 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLE–FLL arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 559 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • United Airlines
    On-time86%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights285
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights73
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel1.5%
    Flights201

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline21%
  • Weather8%
  • Air traffic (NAS)43%
  • Late aircraft28%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly CLE → FLL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 2,136 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 80 min · 318 flights
  • Middays74% on time · p90 45 min · 366 flights
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 105 min · 229 flights
  • Overnights62% on time · p90 70 min · 313 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 78% to 82% on time.

  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 516 flights
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 35 min · 354 flights
  • Mondays81% on time · p90 35 min · 516 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 40 min · 414 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 35 min · 518 flights
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 45 min · 515 flights
  • Sundays78% on time · p90 55 min · 529 flights
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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.