Carrier route record
UAFLL→CLE
United Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Cleveland
- Flights
- 551
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 42%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with United Airlines.
United on FLL to CLE earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 551 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, United's FLL to CLE record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 545 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.91%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.2%
Every carrier on FLL to CLE, 1,306 flights
These figures cover 551 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
United against every carrier on FLL to CLE
United flew 551 of the 1,306 flights on FLL to CLE, about 42% of it. Its 89.0% on time is 12 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.0% to JetBlue at 60.8%. Two 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (this page) | 551 | 89.0% | 74 min | 0.91% | A+ |
| Frontier Airlines | 514 | 70.6% | 89 min | 3.31% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 186 | 63.8% | 62 min | 4.84% | D− |
| JetBlue Airwaysthin sample | 55 | 60.8% | 66 min | 7.27% | D− |
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Departure window
When United runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 551 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am132 flights95.3%
- 11am–2pm165 flights93.3%
- 2pm–5pm210 flights86.6%
- 5pm–8pm24 flights—
- 8pm–5am20 flights—
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 95.3% of the time, against 86.6% for the afternoon window. That is 9 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 210 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
United on FLL to CLE through the year
July is the worst month at 75.5% on time, 19 points below April, the best at 94.5%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 78 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 97.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 80.7%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late United on FLL to CLE runs when it is late
United on FLL to CLE often beats the schedule: 252 of 545 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 23 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early252 flights46.2%
- Within 15 min233 flights42.8%
- 15–29 min late16 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late23 flights4.2%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late11 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 545 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 57 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for United on FLL to CLE
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 June 2026, 7 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2026 | 7 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 April 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 June 2026 | 4 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 May 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why United runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 62% of the 4,463 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 14%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
62% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,463 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 62 to one. The split is drawn from 4,463 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 95.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 0.91% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.18%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,062 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg runs 89.9% on time across 551 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 551 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 United on FLL to CLE
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 551 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 89.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 545 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to CLE, every carrier
- United on CLE to FLL, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on FLL to CLE70.6%
- Spirit Airlines on FLL to CLE63.8%
- United Airlines network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.