BOS to RSW flight delays
Boston, MA (BOS) Fort Myers, FL (RSW) · 1,249 miles
2,253 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
70.48%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.62%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
66 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
20 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Delta Air Lines arrived on time 8 points more often than JetBlue Airways over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
The season swings this route hard. In June it ran 27.7 points more punctual than in January — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.62% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
Flights from Boston to Fort Myers run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Delta Air Lines arrived on time most often on BOS to RSW. JetBlue Airways was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in June and worst in January.
Every airline on BOS to RSW
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 1,596 | 69.45% | 2.63% | 67 min | D |
| Delta Air Lines | 582 | 77.49% | 1.55% | 64 min | C |
| Spirit Airlines | 75 | 34.33% | 10.67% | 52 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
RSW to BOS Fort Myers back to Boston 70.38% on time FOther routes from Boston
Common questions
Are flights from Boston to Fort Myers usually delayed?
70.48% of flights on the BOS to RSW route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Boston to Fort Myers?
Delta Air Lines, at 77.49% on time across 582 flights. The least punctual on the route was JetBlue Airways at 69.45%.
How often are BOS to RSW flights cancelled?
2.62% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 26 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Boston to Fort Myers?
June, when 84.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 56.8%.
When BOS to RSW flights are late, how late are they?
About 66 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BOS to RSW during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →