Flight profile · Spirit Airlines
NK1986
Chicago (ORD) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) · scheduled 6:40 PM – 9:22 AM
How NK1986 performs
599 operations, 2023-07-01 to 2026-05-01.
NK1986 arrived on time 56.5% of the time, against 74.9% for all ORD → FLL flights — this specific departure is 18.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Spirit Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 13.0 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 599 operations between 2023-07-01 to 2026-05-01
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NK1986 | 56.5% | 3.01% | 8 min | 21.4% | 599 |
| Spirit Airlines on ORD → FLL | 69.5% | 1.95% | -3 min | 12.4% | 3,443 |
| All ORD → FLL flights | 74.9% | 1.51% | -5 min | 9.6% | 9,318 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-01 to 2026-05-01
Other routes NK1986 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route NK1986 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 599 records of NK1986 operating ORD → FLL, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.