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Route Reliability

Fort Myers → Buffalo

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

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
112
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 72 flights
  • JetBlue Airways86% on time · 29 flights
  • Frontier Airlines82% 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.

RSW–BUF flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 81% between 3–6 PM.

Saturdays have been rough.

RSW–BUF flights arrived on time 92% of the time on Thursdays and just 73% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Ticking up lately.

RSW–BUF flights arrived on time 79% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 74% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon—(7 flights)
  • Tue77%(13 flights)
  • Wed—(4 flights)
  • Thu92%(12 flights)
  • Fri—(9 flights)
  • Sat73%(37 flights)
  • Sun90%(29 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM—(3 flights)
  • 6–9 AM81%(21 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM88%(42 flights)
  • 12–3 PM—(9 flights)
  • 3–6 PM81%(31 flights)
  • 6–9 PM—(5 flights)
On-time trend by month
86%
May

Dec 89% → May 86% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
December 202589%18
January 202670%10
February 202664%14
March 202656%16
April 202696%22
May 202686%22

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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.