Carrier route record
AARSW→LGA
American Airlines · Fort Myers to New York
- 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 RSW to LGA draws a C−. About 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 200 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on RSW to LGA runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 110 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 187 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.6%
Every carrier on RSW to LGA, 869 flights
These figures cover 200 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.6% 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 RSW to LGA
American flew 200 of the 869 flights on RSW to LGA, about 23% of it. Its 66.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 70.6% to American at 66.3%.
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 | 70.6% | 104 min | 4.78% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 200 | 66.3% | 80 min | 5.50% | 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 RSW to LGA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 66.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on RSW to LGA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202560 flights57.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights67.1%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights75.0%
Scale runs 50% to 80%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 66.3% on time across 200 flights.
American on RSW to LGA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 57.9%, a swing of 17 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 RSW to LGA runs when it is late
The 63 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 31 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early42 flights22.5%
- Within 15 min82 flights43.9%
- 15–29 min late11 flights5.9%
- 30–59 min late21 flights11.2%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late16 flights8.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 187 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 63 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on RSW to LGA
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 April 2026, 6 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2026 | 6 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 December 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 February 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 May 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 5,021 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%National Airspace System
- 6%Carrier
- 3%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,021 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 to one. The split is drawn from 5,021 reported delay minutes.
36% 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 1,793 minutes out of 5,021, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 5.50%, 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
16.6% 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 69.6% on time across 200 flights, 3 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 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 RSW to LGA
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 5.50% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 187 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- RSW to LGA, every carrier
- American on LGA to RSW, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on RSW to LGA70.6%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.