Spirit Airlines in February 2024

77.8%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 February 2024, Spirit Airlines (NK) reported 19,929 scheduled domestic flights. 77.8% arrived on time, 0.7% were cancelled and 0.1% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 83.4% on time and 0.6% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 5.6 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 38%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and air carrier 28%.

On time 77.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.4%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	NK, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Feb 2024
Arrived on time	77.8%	—	69.8%	83.4%
Departed on time	76.8%	—	69.6%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	3.9%	0.6%
Average arrival delay	4.9 min	—	12.2 min	0.6 min
Scheduled flights a day	664	—	321	17,307
Scheduled flights	19,929	—	117,136	519,221

60 airports and 483 routes had NK flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MCO Orlando	2,137	72.4%	10.9 min	0.3%
FLL Fort Lauderdale	2,039	65.5%	15.4 min	0.7%
LAS Las Vegas	1,901	84.4%	-1.1 min	0.7%
ATL Atlanta	848	76.5%	7.2 min	0.5%
DTW Detroit	844	86.1%	-6.2 min	0.2%
EWR Newark	817	81.6%	-4.1 min	1.5%
LAX Los Angeles	800	86.1%	-3.5 min	0.1%
DFW Dallas/Fort Worth	726	79.6%	4.0 min	0.3%
TPA Tampa	619	82.4%	1.0 min	0.6%
MIA Miami	608	78.3%	5.6 min	0.3%
LGA New York	593	81.3%	-1.0 min	2.2%
ORD Chicago	576	81.3%	2.0 min	0.0%
IAH Houston	566	82.3%	2.1 min	0.2%
BOS Boston	511	71.0%	11.2 min	2.0%
MSY New Orleans	454	84.1%	1.7 min	0.4%

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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.0%	35.9%	73,427
Late-arriving aircraft	31.2%	36.9%	81,918
National Aviation System	38.2%	21.7%	100,255
Extreme weather	1.8%	5.3%	4,697
Security	0.9%	0.3%	2,269

262,566 delay minutes on 4,264 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 February 2024?

77.8% of 19,929 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 83.4% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.