Carrier route record
NKMCO→LGA
Spirit Airlines · Orlando to New York
- 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 MCO to LGA draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 544 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 2,162 at 75.7% on time.
Delta Air Lines is the most reliable of the three carriers covered here at 75.7% on time across 2,162 flights.
Key figures
On time
63.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 509 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on MCO to LGA, 5,149 flights
These figures cover 544 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.1% 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 MCO to LGA
Spirit flew 544 of the 5,149 flights on MCO to LGA, about 11% of it. Its 63.5% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 75.7% to American at 58.4%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 75.7% of the time; American Airlines manages 58.4%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 901 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 2,162 | 75.7% | 75 min | 4.53% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 338 | 68.8% | 69 min | 4.14% | C− |
| Spirit Airlines (this page) | 544 | 63.5% | 68 min | 6.07% | D− |
| JetBlue Airways | 1,204 | 61.2% | 82 min | 4.07% | D− |
| American Airlines | 901 | 58.4% | 101 min | 3.22% | D− |
Delta Air Lines cancels 4.5% 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 45 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am85 flights92.9%
- 8am–11am11 flights—
- 11am–2pm84 flights48.1%
- 2pm–5pm104 flights54.3%
- 5pm–8pm194 flights59.4%
- 8pm–5am66 flights67.2%
Scale runs 40% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 48.1% on time against 92.9% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 194 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
Spirit on MCO to LGA through the year
September is the best month on the calendar at 80.6% 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 87 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 71.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 52.4%, a spread of 19 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late Spirit on MCO to LGA runs when it is late
The 186 late arrivals split 49 under half an hour, 50 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 87 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early103 flights20.2%
- Within 15 min220 flights43.2%
- 15–29 min late49 flights9.6%
- 30–59 min late50 flights9.8%
- 1–2 hours late60 flights11.8%
- 2+ hours late27 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 509 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 158 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 7 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 35 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 LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for Spirit on MCO to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 September 2025, 4 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2025 | 4 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 50 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 9 November 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 September 2025 | 3 hours 18 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 25 March 2026 | 3 hours 7 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why Spirit runs late on this route
National Airspace System accounts for 60% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
60% 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 7,569 minutes out of 13,000, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 12,645 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 6.07%, 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
17.1% 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 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 75.2% on time across 544 flights, 12 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 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 MCO to LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 6.07% 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. 509 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCO to LGA, every carrier
- Spirit on LGA to MCO, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MCO to LGA75.7%
- Frontier Airlines on MCO to LGA68.8%
- JetBlue Airways on MCO to LGA61.2%
- American Airlines on MCO to LGA58.4%
- Spirit Airlines network-wide record
- Orlando International (MCO) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.