Spirit Airlines in August 2023

65.6%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In August 2023, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 21,514 scheduled domestic flights. 65.6% arrived on time, 1.4% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 76.9% on time and 1.5% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 11.3 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 37%, air carrier 29% and late-arriving aircraft 28%.

On time 65.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 32.7%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Spirit Airlines in August 2023.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Aug 2023
Arrived on time	65.6%	—	69.8%	76.9%
Departed on time	65.6%	—	69.6%	76.7%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	3.9%	1.5%
Average arrival delay	19.7 min	—	12.2 min	8.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	717	—	321	20,100
Scheduled flights	21,514	—	117,136	602,987

63 airports and 491 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	2,428	54.0%	30.1 min	1.1%
LAS Las Vegas	2,194	70.9%	12.0 min	1.2%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	1,824	53.0%	29.6 min	1.1%
LAX Los Angeles	1,177	66.5%	17.9 min	0.9%
ATL Atlanta	1,055	64.8%	25.2 min	1.3%
EWR Newark	873	65.5%	18.4 min	1.0%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	812	69.8%	16.2 min	0.6%
DTW Detroit	793	74.7%	9.4 min	0.9%
ORD Chicago	625	65.0%	18.1 min	1.8%
MIA Miami	619	68.3%	20.1 min	1.6%
IAH Houston	605	69.8%	15.1 min	0.5%
SJU San Juan	580	60.2%	30.7 min	1.7%
BWI Baltimore	563	68.2%	18.9 min	2.0%
PHL Philadelphia	557	64.3%	19.2 min	1.1%
BOS Boston	463	55.1%	33.4 min	1.9%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of NK flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	29.1%	36.7%	154,856
Late-arriving aircraft	27.8%	42.2%	148,155
National Aviation System	37.3%	15.7%	198,414
Extreme weather	4.6%	5.1%	24,515
Security	1.2%	0.2%	6,487

532,427 delay minutes on 7,038 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Spirit Airlines flights were on time in August 2023?

65.6% of 21,514 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 76.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Spirit Airlines · methodology · corrections.