Spirit Airlines in September 2023

74.8%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 September 2023, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 21,036 scheduled domestic flights. 74.8% arrived on time, 1.6% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 80.1% on time and 1.2% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 5.3 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 42%, air carrier 27% and late-arriving aircraft 26%.

On time 74.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.3%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Sep 2023
Arrived on time	74.8%	—	69.8%	80.1%
Departed on time	74.4%	—	69.6%	80.5%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	3.9%	1.2%
Average arrival delay	8.6 min	—	12.2 min	5.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	701	—	321	18,978
Scheduled flights	21,036	—	117,136	569,338

63 airports and 499 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAS Las Vegas	2,388	78.1%	5.1 min	1.0%
MCO Orlando	2,292	69.2%	14.6 min	1.7%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	1,984	67.6%	15.0 min	1.5%
ATL Atlanta	1,033	78.3%	5.2 min	0.9%
LAX Los Angeles	1,003	83.5%	-1.6 min	1.3%
DTW Detroit	884	82.9%	-0.2 min	1.8%
EWR Newark	831	71.7%	11.0 min	3.5%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	757	74.0%	11.0 min	0.8%
ORD Chicago	692	74.0%	7.6 min	0.6%
IAH Houston	603	75.3%	7.8 min	0.7%
MIA Miami	554	69.9%	12.9 min	2.0%
BWI Baltimore	485	77.7%	4.4 min	1.0%
PHL Philadelphia	468	73.3%	7.2 min	1.7%
LGA New York	433	71.6%	5.1 min	6.7%
MYR Myrtle Beach	432	83.8%	-0.2 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	26.6%	36.4%	89,704
Late-arriving aircraft	25.7%	38.3%	86,684
National Aviation System	42.1%	19.9%	142,319
Extreme weather	5.0%	5.1%	16,818
Security	0.7%	0.2%	2,228

337,753 delay minutes on 4,907 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 September 2023?

74.8% of 21,036 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 80.1% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.