Detroit to Fort Lauderdale nonstop
Yes: Delta, Spirit, JetBlue and Frontier fly direct from Detroit (DTW) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 7 times a day, year-round.
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Detroit to Fort Lauderdale in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,127 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 50 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in March 2026 (70 flights a week), quietest in June 2026 (27 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 39 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 45 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 51 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 62 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 56 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 64 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 70 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 63 flights a week
- May 2026: 41 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 27 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 42 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 46 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Delta 59%, Spirit 19%, JetBlue 13%, Frontier 9% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 7,552 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $225 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 5,402 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $125 to $325, 6,532 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 8,688 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 7,552 tickets
Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $200), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Fort Lauderdale to Detroit nonstop.
Other airports near Detroit with nonstops to Fort Lauderdale
Within about 100 miles of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Also nonstop from Detroit (DTW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 8 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 8 times a day
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