Carrier route record

AALGA→RSW

American Airlines · New York to Fort Myers

Flights: 200
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 22%
Carriers: 2

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. 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 77.6%, so American on LGA to RSW runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 80 extra late arrivals.

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 1.81%

Whole route

74.8%

Every carrier on LGA to RSW, 904 flights

These figures cover 200 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on LGA to RSW

American flew 200 of the 904 flights on LGA to RSW, about 22% of it. Its 69.6% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 76.2% 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.

On-time performance by carrier on LGA to RSW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	704	76.2%	80 min	3.98%	B−
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	200	69.6%	68 min	4.50%	C−

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%. 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 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.

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.

Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
23%
Extreme weather
16%
Security
1%

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. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,926 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit.

Cancellations run at 4.50%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

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.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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