Carrier route record
NKFLL→EWR
Spirit Airlines · Fort Lauderdale to Newark
- Flights
- 887
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 19%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Spirit Airlines.
Spirit on FLL to EWR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, a little over half of flights arrive on time, worth a D− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 887 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, United Airlines, flew 2,721 at 78.1% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so Spirit on FLL to EWR runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 184 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 828 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.54%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.1%
Every carrier on FLL to EWR, 4,666 flights
These figures cover 887 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.1% 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 FLL to EWR
Spirit flew 887 of the 4,666 flights on FLL to EWR, about 19% of it. Its 58.9% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 78.1% to Spirit at 58.9%.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 78.1% of the time; JetBlue Airways manages 62.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,058 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 2,721 | 78.1% | 82 min | 2.57% | B |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,058 | 62.5% | 69 min | 4.25% | D− |
| Spirit Airlines (this page) | 887 | 58.9% | 70 min | 6.54% | D− |
JetBlue Airways cancels 4.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 42 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am151 flights86.0%
- 8am–11am143 flights67.4%
- 11am–2pm110 flights43.7%
- 2pm–5pm138 flights50.8%
- 5pm–8pm106 flights47.4%
- 8pm–5am239 flights53.2%
Scale runs 35% to 90%.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 43.7% on time against 86.0% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 239 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Spirit on FLL to EWR through the year
November is the best month on the calendar at 69.9% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. March was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 70.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 46.2%, a spread of 25 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Spirit on FLL to EWR runs when it is late
The 340 late arrivals split 79 under half an hour, 103 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 158 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early173 flights20.9%
- Within 15 min315 flights38.0%
- 15–29 min late79 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late103 flights12.4%
- 1–2 hours late107 flights12.9%
- 2+ hours late51 flights6.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 828 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
51 of 362 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 29 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Spirit on FLL to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 November 2025, 5 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. Four of the five worst days fell in November 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2025 | 5 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 10 November 2025 | 4 hours 58 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 8 November 2025 | 4 hours 48 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 December 2025 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 November 2025 | 4 hours 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Spirit runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 44% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%National Airspace System
- 33%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
44% 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 11,000 minutes out of 24,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 23,894 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.54%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
19.1% 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.
The 1,065 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.6% on time across 888 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 887 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 FLL to EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.54% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 828 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FLL to EWR, every carrier
- Spirit on EWR to FLL, the return leg
- United Airlines on FLL to EWR78.1%
- JetBlue Airways on FLL to EWR62.5%
- Spirit Airlines network-wide record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
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.