Meadows Field in March 2024

85.0%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 187 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 85.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.0% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 6.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 78.5% of the time (186 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 25% and national aviation system 23%.

On time 85.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.9%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	85.0%	—	83.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	85.0%	—	81.3%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.4%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.2 min	—	14.9 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	8	19,726
Scheduled departures	187	—	2,927	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	86	46%	87.2%	0.8 min	1.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	66	35%	77.3%	7.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	35	19%	94.3%	-4.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	90	91.1%	0.7 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	35	62.9%	26.1 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	31	93.5%	-13.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	83.9%	-4.3 min	3.2%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

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

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	41.4%	32.1%	1,047
Late-arriving aircraft	24.9%	42.1%	631
National Aviation System	23.3%	21.4%	590
Extreme weather	10.4%	4.2%	264
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,532 delay minutes on 26 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 March 2024?

85.0% of 187 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.