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Airport month · March 2024

Bradley International in March 2024

79.5%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,757 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 79.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.7% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 1.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 73.6% of the time (1,757 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 24% and national aviation system 22%.

Every scheduled departure from BDL in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierBDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time79.5%—79.0%78.5%
Arrived on time80.7%—76.7%78.3%
Cancelled0.7%—2.4%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.7 min—16.3 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day59—6119,726
Scheduled departures1,757—22,344591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways36020%68.9%15.8 min1.4%
WN Southwest Airlines32018%83.1%3.3 min0.0%
AA American Airlines27115%81.5%11.7 min1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines27115%93.4%-8.6 min0.4%
UA United Airlines1478%96.6%-11.6 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines1207%84.2%0.4 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines855%42.4%56.1 min3.5%
9E Endeavor Air553%85.5%1.0 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air533%86.8%-5.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline422%90.5%-14.0 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines312%58.1%15.6 min3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines20%100.0%-29.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BDL–MCOHartford to Orlando18561.6%33.8 min1.6%
BDL–DCAHartford to Washington16581.2%7.1 min0.6%
BDL–ORDHartford to Chicago16089.4%-4.7 min0.0%
BDL–ATLHartford to Atlanta15092.0%-4.7 min0.0%
BDL–BWIHartford to Baltimore14187.9%0.4 min0.0%
BDL–CLTHartford to Charlotte12481.5%7.3 min0.0%
BDL–SJUHartford to San Juan9352.7%28.2 min3.2%
BDL–FLLHartford to Fort Lauderdale8967.4%14.8 min1.1%
BDL–DTWHartford to Detroit8893.2%-7.7 min0.0%
BDL–TPAHartford to Tampa8070.0%11.8 min0.0%
BDL–MIAHartford to Miami6282.3%11.8 min3.2%
BDL–MSPHartford to Minneapolis6293.5%-12.4 min1.6%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier23.8%32.1%6,860
Late-arriving aircraft52.9%42.1%15,239
National Aviation System22.1%21.4%6,377
Extreme weather1.2%4.2%352
Security0.0%0.2%0
28,828 delay minutes on 323 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 March 2024?

79.5% of 1,757 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.