Best airline from Los Angeles to Atlanta

Most punctual on this route

B
Spirit Airlines

84.7% on time across 270 flights · 0.74% cancelled

That is 3.2 points clear of Delta Air Lines, the next best on this route at 81.53%.

Every airline on LAX to ATL, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 Spirit Airlines 270 84.7% 0.74% B
2 Delta Air Lines 3,844 81.53% 0.86% B
3 American Airlines 379 66.84% 0.53% D
4 Frontier Airlines 520 60.08% 1.73% F

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On LAX to ATL the spread between best and worst is 24.6 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full LAX to ATL record → · Best time of year to fly it →