Route reliability record
FLL→HPN
Fort Lauderdale to White Plains
- Flights
- 880
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,097 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 880 FLL to HPN flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly FLL to HPN: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 84.6%, against 74.3% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 845 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.16%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
74.3% on time across 880 flights
These figures cover 880 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on FLL to HPN
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue Airways | 880 | 74.3% | 66 min | 2.16% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on FLL to HPN
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Fort Lauderdale to White Plains
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 5 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. FLL → EWRFort Lauderdale to Newark | United Airlines | 76.1% | 78.1% | 2.57% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. PBI → EWRWest Palm Beach to Newark | United Airlines | 76.1% | 77.9% | 2.33% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 2158 06:00 |
| 3. PBI → ISPWest Palm Beach to Islip | JetBlue Airways | 75.4% | 76.8% | 1.85% | 5am–8am, Wed | B6 544 10:09 |
| 4. PBI → JFKWest Palm Beach to New York | JetBlue Airways | 74.3% | 77.5% | 4.12% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 5. MIA → EWRMiami to Newark | United Airlines | 73.7% | 75.5% | 2.37% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1864 07:07 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 48 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am253 flights92.6%
- 8am–11am17 flights—
- 11am–2pm101 flights44.3%
- 2pm–5pm76 flights74.3%
- 5pm–8pm365 flights73.5%
- 8pm–5am68 flights51.6%
Scale runs 35% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 44.3% on time against 92.6% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter FLL to HPN by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On FLL to HPN, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.6% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 44.3%, a wide gap of 48.3 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.6%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm44.3%
- 2–5pm74.3%
- 5–8pm73.5%
- 8pm–5am51.6%
best all US flightsScale 35% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 34 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 57.4%. June is the strongest month at 90.9%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 34 points. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.8%, a spread of 21 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 14,000 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 40 to one. The split is drawn from 14,205 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 40%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,745 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.16% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.82%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,097 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 70.9% on time across 880 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 880 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in HPN after this flight
What to do with this
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 880 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 74.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 845 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
FLL to HPN questions
How often is FLL to HPN delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 25.7% of the 880 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is FLL to HPN compared with the rest of the country?
74.3% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 3 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on FLL to HPN?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.6% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 44.3%, 48 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are March delays on FLL to HPN?
March is the weakest month at 57.4% on time, compared with 90.9% in June. Across the year that is 34 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- HPN to FLL — the return legseparate record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- FLL to ATL, a related route71.0%
- PBI to HPN, a related route72.7%
- FLL to LGA, a related route64.8%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record74.3%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. FLL to HPN and HPN to FLL are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.