Spirit Airlines in November 2023

75.6%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 November 2023, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 23,164 scheduled domestic flights. 75.6% arrived on time, 0.4% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% on time and 0.1% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 10.6 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 28%.

On time 75.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 24.0%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Nov 2023
Arrived on time	75.6%	—	69.8%	86.2%
Departed on time	73.9%	—	69.6%	86.0%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	3.9%	0.1%
Average arrival delay	8.0 min	—	12.2 min	-1.3 min
Scheduled flights a day	772	—	321	18,793
Scheduled flights	23,164	—	117,136	563,777

63 airports and 525 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	2,433	69.8%	14.6 min	0.4%
LAS Las Vegas	2,414	82.4%	1.5 min	0.3%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	2,116	61.5%	20.2 min	0.2%
LAX Los Angeles	1,102	79.9%	0.5 min	0.5%
ATL Atlanta	1,053	72.6%	11.7 min	0.2%
DTW Detroit	1,016	83.4%	-1.6 min	0.2%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	868	75.6%	7.8 min	0.0%
EWR Newark	862	83.5%	1.5 min	0.2%
ORD Chicago	704	73.6%	11.0 min	0.0%
IAH Houston	662	75.5%	11.5 min	0.3%
MIA Miami	635	78.7%	5.4 min	0.2%
TPA Tampa	633	81.4%	4.4 min	0.3%
LGA New York	607	81.9%	-1.0 min	0.7%
BWI Baltimore	550	77.3%	5.8 min	0.4%
BOS Boston	463	63.7%	16.3 min	0.0%

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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	31.7%	42.5%	107,955
Late-arriving aircraft	38.1%	37.3%	129,610
National Aviation System	28.2%	16.2%	95,855
Extreme weather	0.9%	3.7%	3,040
Security	1.1%	0.3%	3,768

340,228 delay minutes on 5,561 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 November 2023?

75.6% of 23,164 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 86.2% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.