Spirit Airlines in January 2024

72.5%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 January 2024, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 20,415 scheduled domestic flights. 72.5% arrived on time, 1.5% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% on time and 3.7% cancelled that month, so the carrier was level with the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 41%, late-arriving aircraft 28% and air carrier 26%.

On time 72.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.8%
Cancelled 1.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Spirit Airlines in January 2024.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Jan 2024
Arrived on time	72.5%	—	69.8%	72.9%
Departed on time	72.9%	—	69.6%	74.0%
Cancelled	1.5%	—	3.9%	3.7%
Average arrival delay	9.7 min	—	12.2 min	10.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	681	—	321	18,242
Scheduled flights	20,415	—	117,136	547,271

62 airports and 497 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	2,182	68.0%	16.1 min	1.6%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	2,083	62.1%	15.8 min	1.1%
LAS Las Vegas	2,005	83.9%	-0.1 min	0.9%
ATL Atlanta	938	69.8%	12.6 min	0.6%
LAX Los Angeles	922	81.5%	-0.6 min	1.5%
EWR Newark	837	78.5%	5.1 min	1.4%
DTW Detroit	757	68.2%	7.7 min	2.9%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	745	69.7%	14.2 min	1.7%
ORD Chicago	637	63.0%	13.9 min	2.7%
LGA New York	633	74.9%	7.3 min	3.2%
MIA Miami	607	68.2%	14.1 min	1.2%
IAH Houston	595	67.2%	17.7 min	2.4%
TPA Tampa	586	77.6%	3.5 min	1.4%
SJU San Juan	448	71.7%	21.4 min	0.0%
BWI Baltimore	425	69.2%	8.9 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.9%	32.6%	89,128
Late-arriving aircraft	28.2%	39.0%	96,935
National Aviation System	41.2%	17.9%	141,686
Extreme weather	3.8%	10.3%	13,001
Security	1.0%	0.2%	3,442

344,192 delay minutes on 5,274 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 January 2024?

72.5% of 20,415 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 72.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Spirit Airlines · methodology · corrections.