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Route Reliability

Fort Lauderdale → Columbus

FLLCMH · 973 miles · Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport to John Glenn Columbus International Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
67%
Arrive within 15 minutes
14 min
Average arrival delay
2.6%
Cancelled
908
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.Spirit Airlines73%490 flights
  2. 2.Southwest Airlines60%398 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (20 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

FLL–CMH flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 53% between 12–3 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

FLL–CMH flights arrived on time 80% of the time on Wednesdays and just 55% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Spirit Airlines runs this route best.

Spirit Airlines arrived on time 73% of the time on this route; Southwest Airlines managed 60%.

Recent months have been rougher.

FLL–CMH flights arrived on time 53% 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
  • Mon57%(124 flights)
  • Tue76%(99 flights)
  • Wed80%(92 flights)
  • Thu69%(132 flights)
  • Fri65%(126 flights)
  • Sat71%(166 flights)
  • Sun55%(143 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM100%(10 flights)
  • 6–9 AM86%(131 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(104 flights)
  • 12–3 PM53%(81 flights)
  • 3–6 PM60%(280 flights)
  • 6–9 PM56%(208 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM63%(68 flights)
On-time trend by month
46%
May

Jun 77% → May 46% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202577%92
July 202572%94
August 202575%69
September 202577%66
October 202575%55
November 202564%67
December 202561%71
January 202675%80
February 202657%79
March 202652%110
April 202663%75
May 202646%24

Based on 908 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.