IND to FLL flight delays
Indianapolis, IN (IND) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) · 1,005 miles
1,044 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
78.16%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.01%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
70 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
16 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Southwest Airlines arrived on time 15 points more often than Allegiant Air 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 November it ran 34.3 points more punctual than in May — 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.
The two directions do not behave alike. FLL to IND arrives on time 12.4 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.
The route has been getting worse. The later months run 11 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on IND to FLL. Allegiant Air was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in May.
Every airline on IND 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 417 | 82.37% | 0.72% | 41 min | B |
| Spirit Airlines | 372 | 80.5% | 3.49% | 105 min | C |
| Allegiant Air | 232 | 67.4% | 1.29% | 68 min | D |
| Frontier Airlines | 23 | 71.43% | 8.7% | 31 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Indianapolis
Common questions
Are flights from Indianapolis to Fort Lauderdale usually delayed?
78.16% of flights on the IND to FLL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Indianapolis to Fort Lauderdale?
Southwest Airlines, at 82.37% on time across 417 flights. The least punctual on the route was Allegiant Air at 67.4%.
How often are IND to FLL flights cancelled?
2.01% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 20 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Indianapolis to Fort Lauderdale?
November, when 95% of flights arrived on time. The worst was May at 60.7%.
When IND to FLL flights are late, how late are they?
About 70 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 IND 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 →