EYW to FLL flight delays
Key West, FL (EYW) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) · 145 miles
102 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · the publishing regulator
50.52%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.9%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
57 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
28 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.9% 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 Key West to Fort Lauderdale arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
This route does worse than its own airport. EYW as a whole runs 26.8 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. FLL to EYW arrives on time 6.2 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Spirit Airlines arrived on time most often on EYW to FLL. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in February.
Every airline on EYW 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 102 | 50.52% | 4.9% | 57 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
FLL to EYW Fort Lauderdale back to Key West 44.33% on time FOther routes from Key West
Common questions
Are flights from Key West to Fort Lauderdale usually delayed?
50.52% of flights on the EYW to FLL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 5 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Key West to Fort Lauderdale?
Only Spirit Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 102 flights and 50.52% arriving on time.
How often are EYW to FLL flights cancelled?
4.9% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 49 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When EYW to FLL flights are late, how late are they?
About 57 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 EYW 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 →