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Airport month · October 2023

Bradley International in October 2023

87.6%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,826 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 87.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.2% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 3.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 84.1% of the time (1,823 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 19%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2023Year earlierBDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time87.6%—79.0%83.8%
Arrived on time87.2%—76.7%84.0%
Cancelled0.1%—2.4%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)8.9 min—16.3 min11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day61—6119,966
Scheduled departures1,826—22,344598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines36820%94.0%-8.1 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines35519%84.5%1.4 min0.0%
AA American Airlines24613%89.4%4.0 min0.4%
B6 JetBlue Airways19511%71.8%9.6 min0.0%
UA United Airlines18910%90.5%-3.2 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1418%90.1%-7.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air764%82.9%-3.2 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines764%90.8%-2.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines694%75.4%2.4 min1.4%
OH PSA Airlines623%90.3%-9.7 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air452%97.8%-15.2 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines40%100.0%-11.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BDL–ATLHartford to Atlanta17594.9%-6.3 min0.0%
BDL–DCAHartford to Washington17389.0%1.3 min0.0%
BDL–MCOHartford to Orlando17181.3%5.6 min0.0%
BDL–ORDHartford to Chicago16684.3%-1.3 min0.0%
BDL–CLTHartford to Charlotte14991.3%-1.3 min0.0%
BDL–BWIHartford to Baltimore14684.2%2.2 min0.0%
BDL–DTWHartford to Detroit11795.7%-11.6 min0.0%
BDL–IADHartford to Washington7996.2%-8.3 min0.0%
BDL–MSPHartford to Minneapolis7889.7%-7.1 min0.0%
BDL–SJUHartford to San Juan7669.7%6.4 min1.3%
BDL–DENHartford to Denver6290.3%-3.2 min0.0%
BDL–MDWHartford to Chicago6290.3%-1.2 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2023Minutes
Air carrier34.1%41.3%4,820
Late-arriving aircraft46.7%40.5%6,600
National Aviation System18.7%14.4%2,642
Extreme weather0.0%3.7%0
Security0.4%0.2%60
14,122 delay minutes on 230 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 October 2023?

87.6% of 1,826 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.