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Route Reliability

Buffalo → Fort Myers

BUF–RSW · 1,144 miles · Buffalo Niagara International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport

68
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
74%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
2.7%
Cancelled
112
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines71% on time · 72 flights
  • JetBlue Airways97% on time · 29 flights
  • Frontier Airlines22% on time · 11 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

BUF–RSW flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 46% between 3–6 PM.

Saturdays have been rough.

BUF–RSW flights arrived on time 92% of the time on Tuesdays and just 67% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

BUF–RSW flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 64% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon—(6 flights)
  • Tue92%(13 flights)
  • Wed—(4 flights)
  • Thu83%(12 flights)
  • Fri—(9 flights)
  • Sat67%(36 flights)
  • Sun82%(28 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM—(5 flights)
  • 6–9 AM—(1 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM97%(33 flights)
  • 12–3 PM70%(46 flights)
  • 3–6 PM46%(11 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(3 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(9 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Dec 50% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
December 202550%16
January 202650%10
February 202693%14
March 202669%16
April 202686%22
May 202676%21

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Based on 112 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.