Route reliability record
HPN→FLL
White Plains to Fort Lauderdale
- Flights
- 880
- Period
- July 2025 to June 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 880 HPN to FLL flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Best time to fly HPN to FLL: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Saturday. Flights in that window arrived on time 81.6% of the time and Saturday flights 81.7%, against 73.2% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so this route runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 859 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.93%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
JetBlue
73.2% on time across 880 flights
These figures cover 880 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on HPN to FLL
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 | 73.2% | 75 min | 1.93% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on HPN to FLL
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.
Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly White Plains to Fort Lauderdale
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. EWR → MIANewark to Miami | American Airlines | 78.1% | 80.5% | 2.95% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 1196 05:40 |
| 2. EWR → PBINewark to West Palm Beach | United Airlines | 77.6% | 79.1% | 1.95% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1253 07:30 |
| 3. EWR → FLLNewark to Fort Lauderdale | United Airlines | 77.0% | 78.7% | 2.17% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 1364 07:00 |
| 4. JFK → PBINew York to West Palm Beach | Delta Air Lines | 76.7% | 80.7% | 4.94% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2018 07:00 |
| 5. EWR → MIANewark to Miami | United Airlines | 75.9% | 77.6% | 2.18% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 2295 11:00 |
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 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am117 flights76.5%
- 8am–11am276 flights81.6%
- 11am–2pm108 flights68.6%
- 2pm–5pm77 flights47.2%
- 5pm–8pm109 flights63.8%
- 8pm–5am193 flights76.8%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 81.6% of the time, against 47.2% for the afternoon window. That is 34 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 276 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 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 61.3%. August is the strongest month at 85.5%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 24 points. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 81.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 61.2%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 17,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 17,231 reported delay minutes.
34% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 5,893 minutes out of 17,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.45%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg runs 74.3% on time across 880 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
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 FLL after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
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 73.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 859 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
HPN to FLL questions
How often is HPN to FLL 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 26.8% of the 880 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is HPN to FLL compared with the rest of the country?
73.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of 4 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on HPN to FLL?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 81.6% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 47.2%, 34 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 HPN to FLL?
March is the weakest month at 61.3% on time, compared with 85.5% in August. Across the year that is 24 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
- FLL to HPN — the return legseparate record
- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International (FLL) delay statistics
- HPN to PBI, a related route73.9%
- ATL to FLL, a related route70.7%
- HPN to ORD, a related route78.7%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record73.2%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. HPN to FLL and FLL to HPN 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.