Route reliability record
HPN→PBI
White Plains to West Palm Beach
- Flights
- 1,574
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,056 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, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,574 HPN to PBI flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly HPN to PBI: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 88.0% of the time and Wednesday flights 83.1%, against 72.9% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, 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
72.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,522 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.99%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
JetBlue
72.9% on time across 1,574 flights
These figures cover 1,574 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% 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 PBI
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 | 1,574 | 72.9% | 80 min | 2.99% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on HPN to PBI
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 West Palm Beach
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 → PBINewark to West Palm Beach | United Airlines | 77.7% | 79.4% | 2.10% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 1771 06:30 |
| 2. JFK → PBINew York to West Palm Beach | Delta Air Lines | 77.1% | 80.9% | 4.65% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 2018 07:00 |
| 3. EWR → FLLNewark to Fort Lauderdale | United Airlines | 76.2% | 78.2% | 2.53% | 5am–8am, Tue | UA 1364 07:00 |
| 4. JFK → FLLNew York to Fort Lauderdale | Delta Air Lines | 72.4% | 75.3% | 3.90% | 5am–8am, Tue | DL 1422 07:00 |
| 5. ISP → PBIIslip to West Palm Beach | JetBlue Airways | 71.8% | 73.7% | 2.59% | 5am–8am, Tue | B6 545 13:55 |
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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am312 flights88.0%
- 8am–11am404 flights71.9%
- 11am–2pm187 flights76.6%
- 2pm–5pm441 flights64.6%
- 5pm–8pm142 flights67.9%
- 8pm–5am88 flights65.9%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.0% of the time, against 64.6% for the afternoon window. That is 23 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 441 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter HPN to PBI 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 PBI, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 88.0% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 64.6%, a wide gap of 23.4 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am88.0%
- 8–11am71.9%
- 11am–2pm76.6%
- 2–5pm64.6%
- 5–8pm67.9%
- 8pm–5am65.9%
best all US flightsScale 55% 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.
December is the weak month at 61.2% on time, against 88.3% in June. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. March was the busiest month here, with 185 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 63.1%, a spread of 20 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 13%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 32,857 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 88.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.99%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
11.6% 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 1,056 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 runs 72.7% on time across 1,574 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,574 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in PBI after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.99% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,522 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
HPN to PBI questions
How often is HPN to PBI 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 27.1% of the 1,574 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 PBI compared with the rest of the country?
72.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, 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 PBI?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 88.0% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 64.6%, 23 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 December delays on HPN to PBI?
December is the weakest month at 61.2% on time, compared with 88.3% in June. 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
- PBI to HPN — the return legseparate record
- Palm Beach International (PBI) delay statistics
- HPN to ORD, a related route78.1%
- ATL to PBI, a related route75.8%
- HPN to DCA, a related route59.6%
- JetBlue Airways on-time record72.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. HPN to PBI and PBI 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.