Spirit Airlines in December 2023

75.4%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 December 2023, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 22,583 scheduled domestic flights. 75.4% arrived on time, 0.4% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 83.8% on time and 0.4% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 8.4 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 36%, national aviation system 32% and air carrier 30%.

On time 75.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 24.1%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Dec 2023
Arrived on time	75.4%	—	69.8%	83.8%
Departed on time	72.0%	—	69.6%	83.1%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	3.9%	0.4%
Average arrival delay	6.9 min	—	12.2 min	0.5 min
Scheduled flights a day	753	—	321	19,013
Scheduled flights	22,583	—	117,136	570,394

63 airports and 512 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	2,382	71.5%	11.6 min	0.6%
LAS Las Vegas	2,206	83.5%	1.1 min	0.1%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	2,186	59.6%	20.3 min	0.5%
ATL Atlanta	1,057	73.8%	8.7 min	0.1%
LAX Los Angeles	1,022	80.4%	2.3 min	0.1%
EWR Newark	889	78.4%	3.1 min	0.4%
DTW Detroit	826	84.7%	-4.1 min	0.1%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	814	75.9%	4.5 min	0.2%
ORD Chicago	698	76.6%	4.1 min	0.1%
MIA Miami	695	77.3%	4.6 min	0.4%
TPA Tampa	692	81.2%	1.2 min	0.1%
LGA New York	652	77.3%	0.4 min	0.6%
IAH Houston	649	76.9%	6.8 min	0.0%
BWI Baltimore	473	77.2%	4.6 min	0.6%
BOS Boston	456	65.8%	15.2 min	2.4%

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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	30.0%	37.1%	100,238
Late-arriving aircraft	35.6%	38.8%	119,032
National Aviation System	32.4%	17.6%	108,203
Extreme weather	0.8%	6.2%	2,572
Security	1.3%	0.3%	4,391

334,436 delay minutes on 5,442 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 December 2023?

75.4% of 22,583 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 83.8% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.