Meadows Field in January 2024

88.3%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 179 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 88.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.2% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 14.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 85.0% of the time (180 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 87.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.3%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from BFL in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	88.3%	—	83.5%	74.0%
Arrived on time	87.2%	—	81.3%	72.9%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.4%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.4 min	—	14.9 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	8	18,242
Scheduled departures	179	—	2,927	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	117	65%	92.3%	-7.5 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	61	34%	77.0%	20.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	1	1%	100.0%	-2.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	80	86.3%	12.6 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	37	94.6%	-13.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	31	87.1%	-9.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	80.6%	5.7 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	38.5%	32.6%	905
Late-arriving aircraft	46.4%	39.0%	1,089
National Aviation System	13.0%	17.9%	306
Extreme weather	2.1%	10.3%	49
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,349 delay minutes on 22 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BFL on time in January 2024?

88.3% of 179 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BFL · methodology · corrections.