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Airport month · September 2023

Bradley International in September 2023

81.9%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,732 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 81.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.3% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 1.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 76.5% of the time (1,733 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 36%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 28%.

Every scheduled departure from BDL in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureSep 2023Year earlierBDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time81.9%—79.0%80.5%
Arrived on time79.3%—76.7%80.1%
Cancelled1.0%—2.4%1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.4 min—16.3 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day58—6118,978
Scheduled departures1,732—22,344569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines34420%88.1%-1.3 min0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines33219%79.8%4.4 min0.6%
AA American Airlines27816%80.2%9.4 min0.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways21813%67.4%13.4 min2.8%
UA United Airlines16910%82.8%-1.0 min1.2%
OH PSA Airlines825%80.5%11.9 min1.2%
YX Republic Airline815%87.7%-0.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines714%70.4%8.5 min1.4%
9E Endeavor Air593%71.2%33.2 min3.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines493%53.1%25.3 min2.0%
MQ Envoy Air483%81.3%5.4 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines10%100.0%-21.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BDL–ATLHartford to Atlanta16689.8%-0.2 min0.0%
BDL–ORDHartford to Chicago16684.9%2.0 min0.0%
BDL–DCAHartford to Washington16177.6%11.4 min1.2%
BDL–MCOHartford to Orlando15258.6%22.4 min3.9%
BDL–CLTHartford to Charlotte14383.2%8.3 min0.0%
BDL–BWIHartford to Baltimore14085.0%2.1 min0.7%
BDL–DTWHartford to Detroit11185.6%2.1 min0.9%
BDL–SJUHartford to San Juan8267.1%7.9 min1.2%
BDL–MSPHartford to Minneapolis7787.0%-8.8 min0.0%
BDL–TPAHartford to Tampa6575.4%6.1 min1.5%
BDL–DENHartford to Denver6193.4%-11.6 min0.0%
BDL–MDWHartford to Chicago5978.0%6.4 min0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Sep 2023Minutes
Air carrier32.0%36.4%7,867
Late-arriving aircraft36.2%38.3%8,902
National Aviation System27.6%19.9%6,791
Extreme weather4.1%5.1%1,001
Security0.0%0.2%0
24,561 delay minutes on 338 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left BDL on time in September 2023?

81.9% of 1,732 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BDL · methodology · corrections.