Bradley International in April 2024

82.4%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,974 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 82.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 1.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 79.2% of the time (1,975 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 82.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.9%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	BDL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	82.4%	—	79.0%	80.5%
Arrived on time	82.5%	—	76.7%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	2.4%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.9 min	—	16.3 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	66	—	61	19,406
Scheduled departures	1,974	—	22,344	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	354	18%	80.8%	-1.3 min	0.8%
WN Southwest Airlines	326	17%	83.1%	3.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	289	15%	77.9%	8.7 min	0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	284	14%	92.6%	-5.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	231	12%	85.7%	5.3 min	0.9%
OH PSA Airlines	113	6%	78.8%	11.8 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	97	5%	79.4%	-0.4 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	85	4%	76.5%	9.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	78	4%	66.7%	32.6 min	2.6%
YX Republic Airline	61	3%	83.6%	-4.5 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	56	3%	91.1%	-8.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BDL–MCO	Hartford to Orlando	215	78.6%	8.4 min	0.5%
BDL–ORD	Hartford to Chicago	179	84.4%	-1.9 min	1.1%
BDL–ATL	Hartford to Atlanta	168	94.0%	-7.8 min	0.0%
BDL–CLT	Hartford to Charlotte	165	80.6%	9.0 min	0.0%
BDL–DCA	Hartford to Washington	161	79.5%	3.5 min	0.0%
BDL–BWI	Hartford to Baltimore	142	82.4%	3.7 min	0.0%
BDL–SJU	Hartford to San Juan	90	66.7%	21.7 min	2.2%
BDL–FLL	Hartford to Fort Lauderdale	88	77.3%	3.6 min	1.1%
BDL–DTW	Hartford to Detroit	86	90.7%	-2.3 min	0.0%
BDL–IAD	Hartford to Washington	82	89.0%	13.2 min	0.0%
BDL–TPA	Hartford to Tampa	77	83.1%	1.1 min	0.0%
BDL–DEN	Hartford to Denver	60	81.7%	4.2 min	0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.5%	33.6%	7,113
Late-arriving aircraft	47.2%	41.0%	12,672
National Aviation System	20.0%	20.0%	5,359
Extreme weather	6.2%	5.1%	1,678
Security	0.1%	0.2%	33

26,855 delay minutes on 334 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BDL on time in April 2024?

82.4% of 1,974 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.