Carrier route record
AALGA→RSW
American Airlines · New York to Fort Myers
- Flights
- 200
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 23%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on LGA to RSW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 200 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on LGA to RSW runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 77 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 191 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on LGA to RSW, 869 flights
These figures cover 200 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on LGA to RSW
American flew 200 of the 869 flights on LGA to RSW, about 23% of it. Its 69.6% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 74.4% to American at 69.6%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 669 | 74.4% | 82 min | 4.78% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 200 | 69.6% | 68 min | 4.50% | C− |
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Departure window
When American 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 200 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's LGA to RSW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 69.6% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on LGA to RSW through the year
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights54.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.4%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights80.0%
Scale runs 45% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 69.6% on time across 200 flights.
American on LGA to RSW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 54.2%, a swing of 26 points on roughly 67 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on LGA to RSW runs when it is late
The 58 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 14 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early44 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min89 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late24 flights12.6%
- 30–59 min late14 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights6.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 191 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at RSW.
The worst days
Worst days for American on LGA to RSW
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 December 2025, 10 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across December, April, November and February, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 December 2025 | 10 hours 2 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 April 2026 | 6 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 November 2025 | 3 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 February 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 December 2025 | 2 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American 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 3,926 reported delay minutes.
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,926 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,926 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 4.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
10.5% 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 1,080 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 66.3% on time across 200 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 200 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 American on LGA to RSW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.50% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 191 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LGA to RSW, every carrier
- American on RSW to LGA, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on LGA to RSW74.4%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- LaGuardia (LGA) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.