Route Reliability
Detroit → Hartford
DTW–BDL · 549 miles · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Bradley International Airport
- 84%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 2 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.7%
- Cancelled
- 1,317
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Airlines on this route
- Delta Air Lines84% on time · 1,235 flights
- Spirit Airlines80% on time · 82 flights
Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.
What the data says
Morning flights do better here.
DTW–BDL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 75% between 9 PM–12 AM.
Sunday scaries are real for this one.
DTW–BDL flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 78%.
Trending in the right direction.
DTW–BDL flights arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 77% in the three months before that.
Best historical flights
Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.
Top flights by on-time rate
More flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon84%(188 flights)
- Tue86%(190 flights)
- Wed87%(190 flights)
- Thu87%(189 flights)
- Fri82%(189 flights)
- Sat84%(158 flights)
- Sun78%(185 flights)
- 6–9 AM90%(156 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM88%(359 flights)
- 12–3 PM87%(343 flights)
- 3–6 PM86%(29 flights)
- 9 PM–12 AM75%(402 flights)
Jun 82% → May 91% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 82% | 129 |
| July 2025 | 80% | 144 |
| August 2025 | 86% | 142 |
| September 2025 | 89% | 109 |
| October 2025 | 92% | 113 |
| November 2025 | 81% | 106 |
| December 2025 | 70% | 103 |
| January 2026 | 79% | 81 |
| February 2026 | 82% | 74 |
| March 2026 | 84% | 88 |
| April 2026 | 91% | 89 |
| May 2026 | 91% | 111 |
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Based on 1,317 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.