On-Time Report

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Route · 12 months to July 2026

Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore: on-time record

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall

69.9%arrived 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. Data through July 2026; this is a monthly history, not live flight status.

Flights from Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Baltimore (BWI) arrived on time 69.9% of the time in the 12 months to July 2026. Reporting carriers scheduled 3,118 flights on the route in that period, about 9 a day, a distance of 925 miles.

That is 6.1 points below the national on-time share of 76.0% for the same period and 1.0 points above the 68.9% recorded for all departures from FLL. Flights that did arrive were 11.7 min late on average, and 2.9% of scheduled flights were cancelled (national: 1.8%).

4 reporting carriers flew the route at least 60 times. Southwest Airlines had the highest on-time share at 72.1% of 2,108 flights; JetBlue Airways had the lowest at 39.1% of 69.

By scheduled departure hour (local time at FLL), flights leaving from 8 am to 9 am had the highest on-time share, 90.9%; those leaving from 9 pm to 10 pm had the lowest, 45.8%.

The on-time share is down 6.8 points on the previous 12 months (76.7%); cancellations moved from 1.6% to 2.9%.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category on this route, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 19%.

69.9%arrived on timenational 76.0%
11.7 minaverage arrival delayearly arrivals count as negative; national 8.1 min
2.9%cancellednational 1.8%
260flights a month3,118 in 12 months · 925 miles
Every scheduled FLL to BWI flight by a reporting carrier, August 2025 to July 2026.

Airlines on the route compared

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines2,10868%72.1%9.9 min2.1%
NK Spirit Airlines77425%67.7%12.7 min4.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines1675%65.3%21.7 min4.8%
B6 JetBlue Airways692%39.1%33.0 min5.8%

Carriers with at least 24 flights in the 12 months to July 2026. The on-time pill is green when a carrier is at or above the route's overall share. Regional carriers operate flights sold under larger airlines' brands; BTS lists the carrier that operated the flight.

Compared with the airports and the nation

MeasureFLL to BWIAll departures from FLLAll arrivals at BWIAll reported flights
Arrived on time69.9%68.9%78.5%76.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late26.9%28.4%19.5%21.9%
Cancelled2.9%2.4%1.7%1.8%
Diverted0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%
Average arrival delay11.7 min14.0 min4.8 min8.1 min
Delay minutes per 100 flights1,7542,1341,2351,684
Scheduled flights3,11890,38194,4337,043,858

12 months to July 2026. Delay minutes count late arrivals only (an early arrival is zero), so the per-100-flights row is a normalised total rather than an average of early and late.

The return direction, BWI to FLL, recorded 73.5% on time across 3,135 flights in the same period.

Month by month

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Share of scheduled FLL to BWI flights that arrived on time, Aug 2023 to Jul 2026. Green columns are at or above the national figure for that month (the dark tick), amber below it, red more than eight points below.

Year on year: on time 69.9% against 76.7% (−6.8 pts), cancelled 2.9% against 1.6%, flights 3,118 against 3,473.

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of flights that arrived on time, by the hour they were scheduled to leave FLL (local time), 12 months to July 2026. Faded cells have few flights. Hover or tap a cell for counts.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNationalMinutes
Air carrier35.7%33.3%18,210
Late-arriving aircraft42.2%39.7%21,511
National Aviation System19.1%20.7%9,747
Extreme weather2.5%6.1%1,286
Security0.4%0.1%201
50,955 delay minutes on 840 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Seasonality

Calendar monthFlightsOn timeCancelledAvg arrival delayYears in sample
Jan96170.2%4.6%8.7 min3
Feb87875.6%2.3%6.9 min3
Mar97667.1%4.0%17.1 min3
Apr94376.1%1.0%8.0 min3
May83571.4%0.4%11.6 min3
Jun77669.7%3.0%16.8 min3
Jul86061.7%2.6%21.6 min3
Aug91167.4%2.2%15.8 min3
Sep81379.2%0.7%3.0 min3
Oct90483.1%0.7%1.2 min3
Nov89983.5%1.0%0.7 min3
Dec93470.3%1.5%10.2 min3

Each calendar month summed across the 36 months on file, so most rows combine three years. The pill compares the month with the route's own 12-month share.

Other routes from Fort Lauderdale (FLL)

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
FLL–ATLFort Lauderdale to Atlanta7,26069.5%13.3 min2.4%
FLL–EWRFort Lauderdale to Newark4,71668.3%14.4 min3.4%
FLL–LGAFort Lauderdale to New York4,69062.4%19.7 min4.4%
FLL–JFKFort Lauderdale to New York3,88867.3%14.5 min4.2%
FLL–PHLFort Lauderdale to Philadelphia3,50870.0%16.5 min3.2%
FLL–ORDFort Lauderdale to Chicago3,46467.2%20.2 min1.7%
FLL–BOSFort Lauderdale to Boston3,34764.5%19.1 min3.5%
FLL–DFWFort Lauderdale to Dallas/Fort Worth3,05568.9%16.5 min3.1%

All 105 routes and the airport record for FLL · airport record for BWI

Questions and answers

How often are flights from Fort Lauderdale to Baltimore on time?

69.9% of the 3,118 flights scheduled from FLL to BWI in the 12 months to July 2026 arrived less than 15 minutes after their scheduled time. The national share for the same period was 76.0%. Cancelled and diverted flights count as not on time.

Which airline has the highest on-time share from FLL to BWI?

Among reporting carriers with at least 60 flights on the route, Southwest Airlines had the highest on-time share (72.1%), followed by Spirit Airlines (67.7%) and Frontier Airlines (65.3%). Differences of a point or two on a few hundred flights are small.

What causes delays between Fort Lauderdale and Baltimore?

For flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late, carriers attributed the delay minutes as follows: late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 36%, national aviation system 19%, extreme weather 3%, security 0%. The categories are the carriers' own reports to BTS; weather that slows the wider system is usually recorded under the National Aviation System rather than extreme weather.

What time of day has the highest on-time share from FLL?

Flights scheduled to leave FLL from 8 am to 9 am arrived on time 90.9% of the time, the highest of any hour with enough flights to compare. The lowest was 9 pm to 10 pm at 45.8%. Delays tend to build through the day as late aircraft carry over to later flights.

Is it getting better?

The on-time share for the 12 months to July 2026 was 69.9%, down 6.8 points on the previous 12 months (76.7%). The monthly chart on this page shows each of the last 36 months. Across those months, November had the highest on-time share (83.5%) and July the lowest (61.7%).

Where does this data come from?

Every figure is computed from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance files, which list each scheduled domestic flight by the carriers required to report. This page covers August 2023 to July 2026. It shows totals and averages only; it is not a live flight-status service.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (1987 to present), monthly files August 2023 to July 2026, a US government work in the public domain. Figures are totals and averages over all scheduled flights by reporting carriers on the route; no individual flight or aircraft is identified. Times are local to the departure airport. The load factor and passenger counts from the BTS T-100 series are not included in this edition. See the methodology; report processing errors through corrections.