Meadows Field in June 2024

83.7%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 June 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 221 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.6% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.7% of flights departed on time and 73.9% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 10.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 76.1% of the time (222 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, air carrier 24% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 75.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.1%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.9%

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

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

Measure	Jun 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jun 2024
Departed on time	83.7%	—	83.5%	73.7%
Arrived on time	75.6%	—	81.3%	73.9%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.4%	1.3%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	14.9 min	19.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	—	8	20,371
Scheduled departures	221	—	2,927	611,132

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	110	50%	76.4%	10.6 min	0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	102	46%	74.5%	6.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	9	4%	77.8%	0.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	112	84.8%	2.7 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	59	64.4%	16.4 min	1.7%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	50	68.0%	11.6 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), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jun 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.4%	34.4%	732
Late-arriving aircraft	55.5%	41.5%	1,667
National Aviation System	14.4%	17.8%	432
Extreme weather	5.7%	6.0%	172
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,003 delay minutes on 51 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 June 2024?

83.7% of 221 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.7% and 73.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

June 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 June 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.