Carrier route record
NKLGA→MCO
Spirit Airlines · New York to Orlando
- Flights
- 544
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Spirit Airlines.
Spirit on LGA to MCO sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 544 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,161 at 72.4% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate Spirit on LGA to MCO from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
75.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 512 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.88%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.1%
Every carrier on LGA to MCO, 5,149 flights
These figures cover 544 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.3% 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 LGA to MCO
Spirit flew 544 of the 5,149 flights on LGA to MCO, about 11% of it. Its 75.2% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 70.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Spirit at 75.2% to Frontier at 56.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The three carriers here are closely matched: 4 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines (this page) | 544 | 75.2% | 82 min | 5.88% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines | 2,161 | 72.4% | 70 min | 4.58% | C− |
| American Airlines | 899 | 69.4% | 77 min | 3.00% | C |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,206 | 68.0% | 83 min | 4.81% | C− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 339 | 56.1% | 127 min | 7.37% | D− |
JetBlue Airways cancels 4.8% 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 31 points, against 4 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am226 flights84.7%
- 8am–11am179 flights77.1%
- 11am–2pm11 flights—
- 2pm–5pm21 flights—
- 5pm–8pm43 flights53.8%
- 8pm–5am64 flights58.2%
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 53.8% on time, against 84.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 226 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Spirit on LGA to MCO through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 89.6% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 86 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 84.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.8%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Spirit on LGA to MCO runs when it is late
Spirit on LGA to MCO often beats the schedule: 211 of 512 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 127 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 58 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early211 flights41.2%
- Within 15 min174 flights34.0%
- 15–29 min late34 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late35 flights6.8%
- 1–2 hours late30 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late28 flights5.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 512 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 129 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for Spirit on LGA to MCO
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 September 2025, 5 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2025 | 5 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 5 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 March 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 November 2025 | 4 hours 19 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Spirit runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 10,000 reported delay minutes.
- 39%National Airspace System
- 37%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,896 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 10,464 reported delay minutes.
39% 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 4,110 minutes out of 10,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 5.88%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
11.3% 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.
The 950 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 63.5% on time across 544 flights, 12 points below 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 12 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 544 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 LGA to MCO
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.88% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 512 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to MCO, every carrier
- Spirit on MCO to LGA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to MCO72.4%
- American Airlines on LGA to MCO69.4%
- JetBlue Airways on LGA to MCO68.0%
- Frontier Airlines on LGA to MCO56.1%
- Spirit Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- 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.