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Airport month · March 2024

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International in March 2024

64.5%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 9,235 domestic departures from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL). 64.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 64.4% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so FLL departures were 14.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FLL that month were on time 66.0% of the time (9,232 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 25%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierFLL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time64.5%—68.4%78.5%
Arrived on time64.4%—68.9%78.3%
Cancelled1.5%—2.4%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)28.1 min—22.1 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day308—24819,726
Scheduled departures9,235—90,381591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
NK Spirit Airlines2,34625%59.9%21.0 min1.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways1,80620%63.3%24.5 min1.9%
WN Southwest Airlines1,67418%60.9%25.3 min2.0%
DL Delta Air Lines1,14912%74.7%14.2 min0.0%
UA United Airlines88310%72.9%18.1 min0.8%
AA American Airlines6827%69.6%28.1 min1.2%
G4 Allegiant Air3684%59.2%28.3 min0.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines1922%62.0%31.8 min4.2%
AS Alaska Airlines1351%48.1%28.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
FLL–ATLFort Lauderdale to Atlanta73363.4%23.9 min1.5%
FLL–EWRFort Lauderdale to Newark52069.8%16.2 min1.3%
FLL–LGAFort Lauderdale to New York44868.8%18.6 min1.1%
FLL–CLTFort Lauderdale to Charlotte37272.6%16.6 min1.3%
FLL–BWIFort Lauderdale to Baltimore36267.4%18.4 min2.5%
FLL–JFKFort Lauderdale to New York36268.0%16.8 min2.2%
FLL–ORDFort Lauderdale to Chicago31858.8%38.5 min1.3%
FLL–BOSFort Lauderdale to Boston30667.3%25.1 min2.9%
FLL–DFWFort Lauderdale to Dallas/Fort Worth28757.8%27.1 min2.1%
FLL–DTWFort Lauderdale to Detroit28176.2%10.4 min0.7%
FLL–DCAFort Lauderdale to Washington26564.2%25.2 min1.5%
FLL–PHLFort Lauderdale to Philadelphia26165.5%21.1 min2.3%

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 carrier29.4%32.1%72,497
Late-arriving aircraft41.7%42.1%102,869
National Aviation System24.6%21.4%60,832
Extreme weather3.6%4.2%8,765
Security0.7%0.2%1,826
246,789 delay minutes on 3,126 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 FLL on time in March 2024?

64.5% of 9,235 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 64.4% 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 FLL · methodology · corrections.