Meadows Field in July 2024

88.0%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 266 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 88.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.0% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 19.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 77.1% of the time (266 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 62%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 85.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.3%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	88.0%	—	83.5%	68.5%
Arrived on time	85.0%	—	81.3%	68.1%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	1.4%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.7 min	—	14.9 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	8	21,154
Scheduled departures	266	—	2,927	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	142	53%	88.0%	3.5 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	98	37%	79.6%	8.6 min	1.0%
MQ Envoy Air	26	10%	88.5%	-3.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	119	90.8%	-1.1 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	75.8%	11.4 min	1.6%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	54	81.5%	16.2 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	31	87.1%	-5.7 min	0.0%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	27.3%	36.6%	980
Late-arriving aircraft	62.2%	42.7%	2,231
National Aviation System	10.1%	16.0%	363
Extreme weather	0.0%	4.6%	0
Security	0.4%	0.1%	15

3,589 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 July 2024?

88.0% of 266 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.