Route reliability record
HPN→FLL
White Plains to Fort Lauderdale
- 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. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 880 HPN to FLL flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly HPN to FLL: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 77.8% of the time and Wednesday flights 80.3%, against 70.9% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 64 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 852 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
70.9% on time across 880 flights
These figures cover 880 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.1% 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 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 | 70.9% | 80 min | 2.50% | 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.
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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 | 78.6% | 81.3% | 3.29% | 5am–8am, Tue | AA 1196 05:40 |
| 2. EWR → PBINewark to West Palm Beach | United Airlines | 77.7% | 79.4% | 2.10% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1771 06:30 |
| 3. JFK → PBINew York to West Palm Beach | Delta Air Lines | 77.1% | 80.9% | 4.65% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2018 07:00 |
| 4. EWR → FLLNewark to Fort Lauderdale | United Airlines | 76.2% | 78.2% | 2.53% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 1364 07:00 |
| 5. EWR → MIANewark to Miami | United Airlines | 75.2% | 77.1% | 2.50% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 2295 11:31 |
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 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am117 flights76.5%
- 8am–11am276 flights77.8%
- 11am–2pm108 flights68.6%
- 2pm–5pm77 flights47.2%
- 5pm–8pm102 flights62.2%
- 8pm–5am200 flights72.4%
Scale runs 40% to 85%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 77.8% of the time, against 47.2% for the afternoon window. That is 31 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.
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Filter HPN to FLL 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 HPN to FLL, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 77.8% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 47.2%, a wide gap of 30.6 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am76.5%
- 8–11am77.8%
- 11am–2pm68.6%
- 2–5pm47.2%
- 5–8pm62.2%
- 8pm–5am72.4%
best all US flightsScale 40% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 27 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.
July is the worst month at 54.5% on time, 27 points below September, the best at 81.5%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. January was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.3%, a spread of 20 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 20,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 4%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 19,785 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 77.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
12.1% 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 74.3% on time across 880 flights, 3 points above 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 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 70.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 852 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
HPN to FLL questions
How often is HPN to FLL delayed?
Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 29.1% of the 880 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% 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?
70.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 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 77.8% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 47.2%, 31 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 July delays on HPN to FLL?
July is the weakest month at 54.5% on time, compared with 81.5% in September. Across the year that is 27 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 route72.9%
- ATL to FLL, a related route70.7%
- HPN to ORD, a related route78.1%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record70.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.