$72 Find Cheap Flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

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Cheapest round-trip
$72
Overall average: $205
Spirit Airlines
Wed 1/28Tue 2/3
FLL - CMH • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$86
Typical prices: $149-$290
Multiple Airlines
Thu 1/22
FLL - CMH • 1 stop
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Cheap Flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus (FLL-CMH)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

Wed, Jan 28 - Tue, Feb 3
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
5:45 am - 8:26 am
CMH
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FLL
2h 41mnonstop
$72Spirit Airlines
Fri, Jan 30 - Mon, Feb 2
Allegiant Air Logo
9:26 am - 12:11 pm
FLL
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LCK
2h 45mnonstop
Allegiant Air Logo
6:16 pm - 9:02 pm
LCK
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FLL
2h 46mnonstop
$75Allegiant Air
Wed, Feb 4 - Mon, Feb 9
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
5:45 am - 8:26 am
CMH
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FLL
2h 41mnonstop
$76Spirit Airlines
Wed, Feb 25 - Mon, Mar 2
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:50 pm - 11:32 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:39 am - 2:19 pm
CMH
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FLL
2h 40mnonstop
$77Spirit Airlines
Thu, Jan 29 - Mon, Feb 2
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
10:40 am - 1:20 pm
CMH
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FLL
2h 40mnonstop
$80Spirit Airlines
Wed, Feb 11 - Mon, Feb 16
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:39 am - 2:19 pm
CMH
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FLL
2h 40mnonstop
$91Spirit Airlines
Tue, Feb 3 - Mon, Feb 16
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
11:39 am - 2:19 pm
CMH
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FLL
2h 40mnonstop
$92Spirit Airlines
Wed, Jan 28 - Tue, Feb 3
Spirit Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 11:27 pm
FLL
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CMH
2h 42mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:06 am - 4:19 pm
CMH
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FLL
10h 13m1 stop
$93Spirit Airlines
Fri, Apr 10 - Mon, Apr 13
Allegiant Air Logo
5:02 pm - 7:47 pm
FLL
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LCK
2h 45mnonstop
Allegiant Air Logo
8:37 pm - 11:11 pm
LCK
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FLL
2h 34mnonstop
$101Allegiant Air
Fri, Apr 10 - Mon, Apr 13
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:02 pm - 7:47 pm
FLL
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LCK
2h 45mnonstop
Multiple Airlines Logo
3:11 pm - 8:24 pm
LCK
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FLL
5h 13m1 stop
$215Multiple Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Fort Lauderdale to Columbus flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest Fort Lauderdale to Columbus flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest return flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus costs $64 on the route between Fort Lauderdale (FLL) and Columbus Rickenbacker Airport (LCK). Over the past month, this route was, on average, 9% cheaper than other Fort Lauderdale-Columbus routes. The most popular route is between Fort Lauderdale (FLL) and Columbus Airport (CMH).

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, look for departures on Saturdays and avoid leaving on a Sunday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Columbus, Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly and Saturday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus is February, where tickets cost $131 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are September and December, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $224 and $218 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 36% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 3 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$72
Flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus Airport

When to book flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

  • What is the cheapest flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus was $85 for a one-way ticket and $72 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Fort Lauderdale and Columbus?

    Yes

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Fort Lauderdale and Columbus, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Columbus from Fort Lauderdale is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Columbus with an airline and back to Fort Lauderdale with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Columbus from Fort Lauderdale up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Prefer to fly direct from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus.
Find which airlines fly direct from Fort Lauderdale Airport to Columbus, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

Monday

Allegiant Air, Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Allegiant Air, Southwest, +1 more

Tuesday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Wednesday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Thursday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Friday

Allegiant Air, Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Allegiant Air, Southwest, +1 more

Saturday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Allegiant Air

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Sunday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

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Direct returns

Columbus to Fort Lauderdale

Monday

Allegiant Air, Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Allegiant Air, Southwest, +1 more

Tuesday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Wednesday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Thursday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Friday

Allegiant Air, Southwest, Spirit Airlines

Allegiant Air, Southwest, +1 more

Saturday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Allegiant Air

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

Sunday

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, Frontier

Southwest, Spirit Airlines, +1 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4250 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
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Flight was on time. Wi-fi was a little spotty/slow. Boarding and exit were efficient.

8.0 ExcellentChad, Dec 2025
PNS - BNA
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Flight was on time. Wi-fi was a little spotty/slow. Boarding and exit were efficient.

Had to get off plane from prior flight even though I had to reboard same plane to continue to my final destination.

Near 4 hour flight with only 1 service. Had to use call button to request water. Internet and power not working until into flight. Internet would stop working during flight.

My flight was delayed 50 minutes and we were rushed to board to then sit for 15 minutes until the pilot arrived. Unacceptable since we could have waited to board. Also the delayed flight was updated AFTER we boarded to more than the 10 minutes as originally stated.

Other than a bit of a delay, everything was good. Again, the boarding process and picking seats is the only thing I don't enjoy.

If we are going to have to pay for luggage, make it easier to do. Put something on the app during check-in so I don't need to do it at the kiosk. I've done it twice recently and I ended up having to pay at the desk because something went wrong at the kiosk in Tampa.

Everything was on time. I was disappointed by the front section female, African American flight attendant. I did not see her name tag or would have identified by name not race. As passengers moved to the bathroom early in flight, she would say with a disdainful tone “I have to say the seat belt light is on” then go back to her book. Better trained flight attendants say something like be careful the seat belt light is on.

The price of the tickets isn't matching the flight experience. No matter how long the flight is, you're only getting pretzels. The flight attendants looked unkept and over it.

Short flight with plenty of open seats. Drinks and snacks were still provided even on such a short flight. <1 hr

WiFi on the flight was not working. Thus, entertainment options were limited.

The only thing nice I can say is the flight crew was really nice and apologetic about the situation. They shared as much information as they had and advised us on what we could do about missing connecting flights. The boarding process was so slow. The gate agent was working by herself and should have had someone working with her. It took almost an hour to board because she was trying to board a full flight of people and provide customer service to everyone who was flying standby and/or had questions. It was really chaotic. This didn't help the fact that we were delayed and folks were missing connections the longer it took.

The food is terrible. The staff is wonderful. Comfort is good.

I fly Delta all the time, have Platinum Medallion status. But this route seems to have major problems with delays and seems to never leave on time! Have only taken it twice in the last two weeks, and each time it had delays of more than 1 hour... very disappointed!!!!

We had a lot of really rough weather but that was not Delta's fault. Pilot was amazing.

This flight was straightforward and without difficulty. Service was OK, but I continue to be underwhelmed by level of attention given to Sky Priority passengers.

The ticket agents in West Palm Beach on Friday afternoon Nov. 7th were incredible in getting us on an earlier plane to Atlanta during the government shutdown. Had the taken our original flight we would have missed our connection. She did this on her own, We didn't even have to ask, and she did it all with a smile and showing genuine concern that we would be taken care of. We are very grateful and thankful. We fly often, and now we will be sure to fly Delta.

Non stop on long haul is the way to go. Great experience

The boarding process needs to be refined. Sometimes the gate crew call out the boarding zone, and then flip to the monitor to show which zones are boarding. So unless everyone is gathered around to see the monitor there is usually confusion as wi which zones are boarding.

Really low quality food especially for an international flight. The crew also was surprisingly unpleasant except couple of ladies. I know we were not in first class but that’s no reason to treat customers as less.

For a 69 year old with health problems I had the worse experience, no wheelchair when I entered a lady told me to sit and wait while a gentleman told me I had to walk to the Delta station, which I did. I had a carry on and a bag, and I was traveling with my service dog, which was on his carrier and the lady charged me for my carry on luggage, beside all the waiting cause of the delay, I had to walk to get my luggage cause no wheelchair showed up, I am so disappointed. I will get in touch with the company. I got home at 3:00 am, not good for my health situation.

It was fine. My connection in Charlotte to go to WPB was too late and I had to spend the night in the Charlotte Airport in the mini suites.

The captain brought my 6 year old son into the cockpit and allowed him to ask questions, sit in the captain’s chair and talk about all the gears and levers. Made the trip very special for him.

Boarding was organized and timely. Food was mediocre, especially for first class travel.

We were 4+ hours delayed. AA is absolutely obnoxious. They just kept pushing back the time to the point where we did not get into Vegas until after midnight when we were supposed to arrive like 845pm.

My last flight on 25 Dec, it’s Christmas Day, everyone happy and very good mood. I really enjoy traveling with Americans Airlines from Miami to Minneapolis my home town after long flight from lhe to Doha then Miami. Thank you again to make my travels comfortable and relaxed. Best regards

For whatever reason, the flight was not catered -we were told it would be a 45 minute delay waiting for catering - so no food. There were opened candy and peanuts in the seatback pocket. Flight landed early in DFW but due to the assigned gate not being available, we sat on the ground for 30 minutes waiting for the gate to open - making the flight actually arrive at the gate late.

Experience was good, however I had a delay due to weather happening and had to re purchase a seat on a new plane for a higher price (could be my own issue and misunderstanding) but other than that situation. First time flyer (by myself) was terrific!! The last from ORD to ALO didn't have wifi, but it was only 45 minutes so I'm sure that was part of the reason. Overall my experience was great! Next time I will remember to buy tickets with longer layovers. The delays really saved my overall anxiety. :)

I appreciated that it was on time, safe and professional. I didn’t like that I wasn’t in a place where I had a window at my window seat. It would have been nice to know that in advance. If it was mentioned in the ticketing, I didn’t notice it.

I like that the crew kept us informed but we moved back and forth from gate to gate before the aircraft arrived.

we landed at cmh ten minutes early but had to sit on tarmac for twenty minutes because a plane was at our gate despite the fact that 3 other gates were open.

It was fine. Nobody was outstandingly friendly but no one was rude and everything was smooth . The captain thanked us for flying but no one greeted me as I walked on the plane or as I exited which is the least they could do lol

Clean, friendly, roomy. But check-in from the phone link was terrible. Repeated attempts wouldn’t save at the final step. Just kept spinning! It was very frustrating. Finally, I used the app (vs website link) to check-in which worked very smoothly on the first attempt.

Check in on the web portal was cumbersome! After several attempts I finally got the boarding pass.

Excellent flight and even arrived 23 min early. No entertainment , or wi fi on board, but I downloaded a couple of movies beforehand which kept me entertained. Really like flying Allegiant airlines.

WE were delayed about an hour and never any communications from the employees working the gate. We also were moved to a total of three gates.

I love how they show love to their customers and care about them too.

I liked how when I got on board how fast we ended up taking off but what I truly disliked was how uncomfortable the seats were. There was truly never a time that I could ever get comfortable during both of my flights. The seats could get away during shorter flights but flights 3 hour plus makes it hard to enjoy.

The crew was great and the flight was very smooth. Can’t really judge food since I did not get any because it costs money. The seat was comfortable for what we bought. Thanks!

Crew was great. No entertainment and food and beverage was for purchase only, even water

It was canceled. The flight wasn’t rescheduled, everyone had to figure out their own new arrangements. They said we would get refunded our original fare and receive an additional $150. We received links for $100 only and they expired before we could activate them.

spirit delayed my first flight 9 hours and then cancelled my flight back home. Very disappointed with their service.

They canceled the flight at the last minute! No customer service. Unable to get another flight for 3 days!! Spirit was NO help at all!!

They cancelled our flight (and others across the country) because crews called out sick. It was a miserable experience.

The counter people was very disrespectful screaming and not helpful to find another flight soon. Having to cancel the flight

There wan no flight and they didn’t tell the reason for cancellation.

The flight was delayed by over an hour. The flight departure time and gate info kept changing several times. Very frustrating boarding experience and inconvenient for families with little children.

Very bad. Our flight was canceled and we need to rebook another flight which was in two hours after we’ve known about cancelation. It changed our plans. We had financial and other loses. Nobody did reimbursement to us.

It’s Spirit need I say more? Thank this little airline because without it the other airlines would raise their prices so much I wouldn’t be able to fly anywhere. It’s affordable and gets you where you need to go! I’m not flying to get a free bag of chips, y’know?

See my last comment for the first leg. That should’ve been in here

Our flight got rescheduled 48 hours later, the airline didn’t pay a penny for our expenses.

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