Meadows Field in May 2024

78.2%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 206 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 78.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.1% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 4.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 73.7% of the time (205 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 79.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.4%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	78.2%	—	83.5%	73.4%
Arrived on time	79.1%	—	81.3%	72.3%
Cancelled	1.9%	—	1.4%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.3 min	—	14.9 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	—	8	20,325
Scheduled departures	206	—	2,927	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	86	42%	84.9%	0.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	70	34%	62.9%	35.2 min	5.7%
MQ Envoy Air	50	24%	92.0%	-1.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	91	85.7%	3.6 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	55	65.5%	39.3 min	7.3%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	38	86.8%	-6.6 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	22	72.7%	11.0 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

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

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	41.2%	29.8%	1,592
Late-arriving aircraft	33.8%	43.0%	1,308
National Aviation System	15.3%	20.1%	593
Extreme weather	9.6%	7.0%	372
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

3,865 delay minutes on 38 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 May 2024?

78.2% of 206 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.