Spirit Airlines in October 2023

79.7%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 October 2023, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 23,294 scheduled domestic flights. 79.7% arrived on time, 1.6% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 84.0% on time and 0.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 4.3 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 34%, late-arriving aircraft 33% and national aviation system 31%.

On time 79.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.7%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Oct 2023
Arrived on time	79.7%	—	69.8%	84.0%
Departed on time	77.2%	—	69.6%	83.8%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	3.9%	0.4%
Average arrival delay	3.1 min	—	12.2 min	1.2 min
Scheduled flights a day	777	—	321	19,966
Scheduled flights	23,294	—	117,136	598,968

63 airports and 486 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAS Las Vegas	2,677	78.7%	3.3 min	1.1%
MCO Orlando	2,500	76.4%	6.3 min	2.4%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	2,113	73.2%	8.4 min	0.4%
LAX Los Angeles	1,112	86.1%	-5.4 min	1.2%
DTW Detroit	1,089	86.5%	-4.6 min	1.2%
ATL Atlanta	1,066	82.3%	4.1 min	1.4%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	906	75.9%	5.1 min	2.1%
EWR Newark	857	84.7%	-3.1 min	1.3%
ORD Chicago	729	74.5%	10.9 min	2.2%
IAH Houston	639	80.3%	4.3 min	3.1%
MIA Miami	604	76.7%	4.8 min	2.6%
TPA Tampa	528	83.1%	4.9 min	1.1%
BWI Baltimore	515	83.5%	-1.8 min	1.9%
LGA New York	465	86.9%	-9.7 min	1.5%
PHL Philadelphia	452	83.8%	-1.7 min	0.9%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	33.7%	41.3%	88,982
Late-arriving aircraft	33.2%	40.5%	87,662
National Aviation System	30.6%	14.4%	80,711
Extreme weather	1.6%	3.7%	4,238
Security	0.9%	0.2%	2,289

263,882 delay minutes on 4,355 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 October 2023?

79.7% of 23,294 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 84.0% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.