CAE to FLL flight delays
Columbia, SC (CAE) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) · 545 miles
120 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · the publishing regulator
60.34%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.5%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
92 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
37 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
This is a late route. Flights from Columbia to Fort Lauderdale miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.5% 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. CAE as a whole runs 19.9 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Every airline on CAE to FLL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air | 80 | 48.05% | 2.5% | 87 min | — |
| Spirit Airlines | 40 | 84.62% | 2.5% | 127 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
FLL to CAE Fort Lauderdale back to Columbia 58.62% on time FCommon questions
Are flights from Columbia to Fort Lauderdale usually delayed?
60.34% of flights on the CAE to FLL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are CAE to FLL flights cancelled?
2.5% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 25 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When CAE to FLL flights are late, how late are they?
About 92 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 CAE to FLL 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 →