RDU to FLL flight delays
Raleigh/Durham, NC (RDU) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) · 680 miles
104 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
81.55%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.96%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
86 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
16 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 86 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
The two directions do not behave alike. FLL to RDU arrives on time 5.8 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
The Raleigh/Durham to Fort Lauderdale route sits close to the middle of the record — neither notably punctual nor notably late.
Every airline on RDU 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 | 52 | 82.69% | 0% | 73 min | — |
| Delta Air Lines | 30 | 82.76% | 3.33% | 72 min | — |
| Frontier Airlines | 14 | 78.57% | 0% | 103 min | — |
| Southwest Airlines | 8 | 75% | 0% | 156 min | — |
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Common questions
Are flights from Raleigh/Durham to Fort Lauderdale usually delayed?
81.55% of flights on the RDU to FLL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
How often are RDU to FLL flights cancelled?
0.96% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 10 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When RDU to FLL flights are late, how late are they?
About 86 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 RDU to FLL during March 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 →