Lakeland is half way between Orlando and Tampa on the I4.
We flew DirectAir from Niagaraand they were perfectly fine.
On time. Very easy to manouver around airports (nobody else there other than Directair at the time we left Niagara and arrived at Lakeland). So much nicer than going from that monstrosity we call Pearson

We were stopping off at US192 in Kissimmee (on our way to Port Canveral) and it took us less than 45 mins.