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Carrier route record

NKCMH→LGA

Spirit Airlines · Columbus to New York

Flights
127
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route
4%
Carriers
3
CGRADE

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Spirit Airlines.

Spirit on CMH to LGA sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 127 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Spirit on CMH to LGA runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 71 extra late arrivals.

Key figures

On time

70.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 124 completed flights

Avg delay

79 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.57%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

79.2%

Every carrier on CMH to LGA, 3,035 flights

These figures cover 127 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

Spirit against every carrier on CMH to LGA

Spirit flew 127 of the 3,035 flights on CMH to LGA, about 4% of it. Its 70.2% on time is 9 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 100.0% to Spirit at 70.2%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on CMH to LGA
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Delta Air Linesthin sample4100.0%—0.00%A+
Republic Airways2,90479.6%73 min4.96%B−
Spirit Airlines (this page)thin sample12770.2%79 min1.57%C

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Departure window

When Spirit runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

  • 5am–8am35 flights82.4%
  • 8am–11am2 flights—
  • 11am–2pm3 flights—
  • 2pm–5pm32 flights56.2%
  • 5pm–8pm—
  • 8pm–5am55 flights69.8%

Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 82.4% of the time, against 56.2% for the afternoon window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 55 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Spirit on CMH to LGA through the year

  • Jul–Sep 202530 flights80.0%
  • Oct–Dec 202590 flights64.4%
  • Jan–Mar 20267 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.2% on time across 127 flights.

Split by quarter, Spirit on CMH to LGA logged 30 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 90 flights in Oct–Dec 2025 and 7 flights in Jan–Mar 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 70.2% annual figure is the one to use.

Arrival by arrival

How late Spirit on CMH to LGA runs when it is late

Spirit on CMH to LGA often beats the schedule: 40 of 124 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When Spirit on CMH to LGA is late it tends to be very late: 19 of its 37 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 7 were two hours or more.

  • 15+ min early40 flights32.3%
  • Within 15 min47 flights37.9%
  • 15–29 min late8 flights6.5%
  • 30–59 min late10 flights8.1%
  • 1–2 hours late12 flights9.7%
  • 2+ hours late7 flights5.6%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 124 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 38 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 4 made it up before arrival. 3 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for Spirit on CMH to LGA

The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 4 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Three of the five worst days fell in November 2025.

The latest arrivals of Spirit on CMH to LGA in the period
DateArrived late byLargest filed cause
9 November 20254 hours 34 minutesNational Airspace System
27 October 20253 hours 45 minutesNational Airspace System
13 October 20253 hours 42 minutesNational Airspace System
11 November 20253 hours 42 minutesNational Airspace System
17 November 20252 hours 12 minutesNational Airspace System

Delay causes

Why Spirit runs late on this route

National Airspace System accounts for 75% of the 2,935 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

  • National Airspace System
    75%
  • Carrier
    19%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    7%

75% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 2,189 minutes out of 2,935, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,935 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.57% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.79%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

15.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 479 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.5% on time across 125 flights, 13 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 13 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 127 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Spirit on CMH to LGA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 127 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 70.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 124 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.