FLL to RIC flight delays
Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) Richmond, VA (RIC) · 806 miles
810 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
65.82%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.84%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
67 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
24 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The season swings this route hard. In May it ran 49.2 points more punctual than in March — 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: 2.84% 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.
The route has been getting worse. The later months run 8.1 points less punctual than the earlier ones. A drift of that size is rarely weather; it is more often an airline adding frequencies faster than the airports can absorb them.
The two directions do not behave alike. RIC to FLL arrives on time 8.3 points more 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 FLL to RIC. JetBlue Airways was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in March.
Every airline on FLL to RIC
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 | 552 | 65.67% | 2.36% | 59 min | F |
| Spirit Airlines | 258 | 66.13% | 3.88% | 85 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
RIC to FLL Richmond back to Fort Lauderdale 74.13% on time DOther routes from Fort Lauderdale
Common questions
Are flights from Fort Lauderdale to Richmond usually delayed?
65.82% of flights on the FLL to RIC 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 Fort Lauderdale to Richmond?
Spirit Airlines, at 66.13% on time across 258 flights. The least punctual on the route was JetBlue Airways at 65.67%.
How often are FLL to RIC flights cancelled?
2.84% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 28 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Fort Lauderdale to Richmond?
May, when 87% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 37.8%.
When FLL to RIC flights are late, how late are they?
About 67 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 FLL to RIC 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 →