OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles

2,342 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.2%of scheduled flights

based on 1,896 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.

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights274
  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.1%
    Flights1,622

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly FLL → LAX

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 62% to 82% on time.

  • Middays82% on time · p90 30 min · 535 flights
  • Mornings81% on time · p90 35 min · 2,642 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 55 min · 290 flights
  • Overnights69% on time · p90 65 min · 1,065 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 75 min · 1,613 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 77% on time.

  • Tuesdays77% on time · p90 45 min · 847 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 816 flights
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 50 min · 873 flights
  • Saturdays74% on time · p90 60 min · 869 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 45 min · 908 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 55 min · 922 flights
  • Sundays68% on time · p90 70 min · 910 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.