On-Time Report

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Airport month · August 2024

Bradley International in August 2024

73.7%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 August 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,034 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 73.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.0% reached their destination on time; 2.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 75.4% of flights departed on time and 74.7% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 1.7 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2023, the airport had 1,832 departures with 77.6% leaving on time: a change of −3.9 points, with flights up 11%.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 69.1% of the time (2,036 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 25%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2024Aug 2023BDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2024
Departed on time73.7%77.6%79.0%75.4%
Arrived on time73.0%76.1%76.7%74.7%
Cancelled2.7%1.4%2.4%2.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.4 min18.6 min16.3 min18.4 min
Scheduled departures a day68616120,634
Scheduled departures2,0341,83222,344619,025

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines44122%70.5%12.4 min5.0%
DL Delta Air Lines37819%80.7%7.1 min0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines37819%76.2%7.9 min0.8%
B6 JetBlue Airways24812%61.7%19.4 min3.2%
UA United Airlines1939%76.7%8.2 min1.0%
OH PSA Airlines1427%73.2%5.4 min5.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines1115%61.3%19.8 min4.5%
NK Spirit Airlines764%75.0%6.0 min2.6%
9E Endeavor Air261%73.1%2.5 min11.5%
YX Republic Airline231%87.0%-2.7 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines131%69.2%14.5 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air50%60.0%3.3 min20.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BDL–ATLHartford to Atlanta19074.2%11.1 min0.5%
BDL–ORDHartford to Chicago19066.8%16.9 min2.1%
BDL–CLTHartford to Charlotte17973.2%11.9 min2.8%
BDL–DCAHartford to Washington16768.9%10.6 min5.4%
BDL–MCOHartford to Orlando16167.1%11.3 min1.9%
BDL–BWIHartford to Baltimore14781.6%2.5 min1.4%
BDL–DTWHartford to Detroit11685.3%5.4 min0.0%
BDL–DENHartford to Denver9365.6%11.3 min0.0%
BDL–SJUHartford to San Juan9350.5%40.4 min4.3%
BDL–PHLHartford to Philadelphia8876.1%-0.6 min11.4%
BDL–MDWHartford to Chicago8782.8%3.3 min1.1%
BDL–MSPHartford to Minneapolis8583.5%1.4 min1.2%

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), August 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.4%33.8%11,171
Late-arriving aircraft38.5%39.8%13,708
National Aviation System24.8%20.4%8,813
Extreme weather5.2%5.9%1,849
Security0.1%0.1%33
35,574 delay minutes on 481 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 August 2024?

73.7% of 2,034 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 75.4% and 74.7%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2023, 77.6% of 1,832 departures left on time and 1.4% were cancelled, against 73.7% and 2.7% in August 2024.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 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.