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Spirit Airlines LGA to DTW on-time performance

Spirit Airlines nonstop flights from New York to Detroit · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
75%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
7.4%
67 flights
Avg arrival delay
23 min
88 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 3
route average 78% on time

Key facts

  • Spirit Airlines flights on LGA to DTW arrived on time 75% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 7.4% were cancelled, and 14% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 3 airlines on this route, which averaged 78% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (40%).

On-time trend by month

30%65%100%July 2025: 80.5% on time, 7.9% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 97.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 87.2% on time, 1.1% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 73.1% on time, 3.1% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 74.1% on time, 5.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 62.8% on time, 5.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 87.5% on time, 13.3% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 70.8% on time, 17.6% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 48.1% on time, 17.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 69.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 66.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft40%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion39%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)21%
  • Security0%
  • Extreme weather0%

Other airlines on LGA to DTW

909 Spirit Airlines flights tracked on this route; 67 cancelled, 0 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.