On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International in April 2025

80.4%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 7,833 domestic departures from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL). 80.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.7% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so FLL departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 8,299 departures with 75.6% leaving on time: a change of +4.8 points, with flights down 6%.

Flights arriving at FLL that month were on time 80.7% of the time (7,827 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 26%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024FLL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time80.4%75.6%68.4%80.6%
Arrived on time81.7%75.6%68.9%79.5%
Cancelled0.5%0.9%2.4%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.4 min18.1 min22.1 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day26127724819,465
Scheduled departures7,8338,29990,381583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
NK Spirit Airlines1,97825%81.9%2.6 min0.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways1,63621%82.5%0.5 min0.1%
DL Delta Air Lines1,14615%80.4%9.4 min0.9%
WN Southwest Airlines1,02413%81.1%4.1 min0.3%
UA United Airlines77910%82.4%3.4 min0.5%
AA American Airlines6648%81.8%2.0 min1.7%
G4 Allegiant Air3635%86.5%1.1 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines1592%72.3%23.3 min1.9%
AS Alaska Airlines841%78.6%-4.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
FLL–ATLFort Lauderdale to Atlanta53278.4%9.9 min1.7%
FLL–EWRFort Lauderdale to Newark44166.9%19.9 min1.6%
FLL–JFKFort Lauderdale to New York37183.6%2.3 min0.5%
FLL–BOSFort Lauderdale to Boston35978.6%5.8 min0.3%
FLL–LGAFort Lauderdale to New York35086.0%2.0 min0.0%
FLL–BWIFort Lauderdale to Baltimore31783.9%5.5 min0.6%
FLL–CLTFort Lauderdale to Charlotte30184.1%-0.4 min0.3%
FLL–PHLFort Lauderdale to Philadelphia28382.7%11.2 min0.4%
FLL–ORDFort Lauderdale to Chicago27181.9%6.2 min0.4%
FLL–DFWFort Lauderdale to Dallas/Fort Worth25873.6%2.6 min3.9%
FLL–DTWFort Lauderdale to Detroit25579.2%7.3 min0.0%
FLL–IAHFort Lauderdale to Houston22686.7%-5.0 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 carrier29.3%32.7%30,859
Late-arriving aircraft38.7%39.4%40,783
National Aviation System25.9%22.2%27,313
Extreme weather5.9%5.5%6,232
Security0.2%0.2%222
105,409 delay minutes on 1,376 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 FLL on time in April 2025?

80.4% of 7,833 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.7% 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, 75.6% of 8,299 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 80.4% and 0.5% 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 FLL · methodology · corrections.