OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Fort Lauderdale to Seattle

2,717 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on FLL–SEA arrive on time 66% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate66%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 811 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time64%
    Median5 min
    p9045 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights504
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights307

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)29%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly FLL → SEA

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 83% on time.

  • Middays83% on time · p90 30 min · 206 flights
  • Mornings72% on time · p90 30 min · 643 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 60 min · 1,858 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 60% to 73% on time.

  • Tuesdays73% on time · p90 35 min · 382 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 45 min · 386 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 45 min · 393 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 50 min · 389 flights
  • Wednesdays70% on time · p90 55 min · 384 flights
  • Mondays68% on time · p90 50 min · 398 flights
  • Sundays60% on time · p90 80 min · 397 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.