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BDL to FLL flight delays

Hartford, CT (BDL) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) · 1,173 miles

722 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

71.1%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.94%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

64 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

20 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The season swings this route hard. In May it ran 41.8 points more punctual than in January — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.

This route does worse than its own airport. BDL as a whole runs 9.9 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.

Only JetBlue Airways flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.

Flights from Hartford to Fort Lauderdale run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, JetBlue Airways arrived on time most often on BDL to FLL. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in January.

Every airline on BDL to FLL

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
JetBlue Airways 672 71.39% 2.08% 62 min D
Spirit Airlines 50 67.35% 0% 95 min

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 87 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Hartford to Fort Lauderdale usually delayed?

71.1% of flights on the BDL to FLL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airlines fly from Hartford to Fort Lauderdale?

Only JetBlue Airways appears in the published record on this route, with 672 flights and 71.39% arriving on time.

How often are BDL to FLL flights cancelled?

1.94% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 19 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Hartford to Fort Lauderdale?

May, when 87% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 45.2%.

When BDL to FLL flights are late, how late are they?

About 64 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BDL to FLL during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →