On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Bradley International in April 2025

84.4%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,036 domestic departures from Bradley International (BDL). 84.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so BDL departures were 3.8 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,974 departures with 82.4% leaving on time: a change of +2.0 points, with flights up 3%.

Flights arriving at BDL that month were on time 79.8% of the time (2,040 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and national aviation system 28%.

Every scheduled departure from BDL in April 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024BDL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time84.4%82.4%79.0%80.6%
Arrived on time80.9%82.5%76.7%79.5%
Cancelled0.3%0.4%2.4%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.5 min14.9 min16.3 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day68666119,465
Scheduled departures2,0361,97422,344583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways40220%82.6%-3.9 min0.2%
AA American Airlines37719%79.6%5.6 min0.5%
WN Southwest Airlines37018%86.5%0.2 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines30015%80.0%9.0 min0.0%
UA United Airlines20610%75.2%9.7 min0.5%
OH PSA Airlines1186%73.7%9.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines764%84.2%1.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines744%79.7%30.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air734%87.7%-7.0 min1.4%
YX Republic Airline221%63.6%19.6 min4.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines181%72.2%57.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BDL–MCOHartford to Orlando23183.1%-3.9 min0.4%
BDL–ORDHartford to Chicago18681.2%5.7 min1.6%
BDL–ATLHartford to Atlanta18080.6%3.8 min0.0%
BDL–DCAHartford to Washington16871.4%7.3 min0.0%
BDL–BWIHartford to Baltimore14786.4%4.0 min0.0%
BDL–CLTHartford to Charlotte14785.0%8.5 min0.0%
BDL–DENHartford to Denver9067.8%13.0 min0.0%
BDL–TPAHartford to Tampa8884.1%-1.2 min0.0%
BDL–DFWHartford to Dallas/Fort Worth8677.9%3.5 min2.3%
BDL–DTWHartford to Detroit8683.7%14.5 min0.0%
BDL–PBIHartford to West Palm Beach/Palm Beach8081.3%2.2 min0.0%
BDL–FLLHartford to Fort Lauderdale7984.8%-9.0 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier35.9%32.7%9,764
Late-arriving aircraft35.0%39.4%9,520
National Aviation System28.1%22.2%7,637
Extreme weather1.1%5.5%302
Security0.0%0.2%0
27,223 delay minutes on 376 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 April 2025?

84.4% of 2,036 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 82.4% of 1,974 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 84.4% and 0.3% in April 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2025; 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.