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FLL vs BDL - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
FLL

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Airport B
BDL

Hartford, CT

Hartford, Connecticut

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric FLL BDL
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 76.4% 80.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 74.0 min 75.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 23.6% 19.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.19% 1.22%
Total Flights 1,010,982 253,617
Delayed Flights 238,106 48,999
Cancelled Flights 11,984 3,099
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

FLL - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Late Aircraft 36.0%
Carrier 33.3%
NAS 24.2%
Weather 5.2%
Security 1.2%

BDL - Hartford, CT

Late Aircraft 39.8%
Carrier 33.6%
NAS 22.8%
Weather 3.7%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from FLL

Route Flights On-Time
FLL → ATL
Atlanta
42,458 77.5%
ATL → FLL
Fort Lauderdale
42,441 77.2%
EWR → FLL
Fort Lauderdale
29,146 75.3%
FLL → EWR
Newark
29,136 74%
FLL → LGA
New York
24,199 75.8%
LGA → FLL
Fort Lauderdale
24,183 74.5%

Top routes from BDL

Route Flights On-Time
BDL → ATL
Atlanta
11,792 86.4%
ATL → BDL
Hartford
11,785 84.3%
BDL → MCO
Orlando
11,640 74.8%
MCO → BDL
Hartford
11,595 74.2%
BDL → ORD
Chicago
11,489 82.5%
ORD → BDL
Hartford
11,489 80.7%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.