Meadows Field in January 2025

87.1%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 240 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 87.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 7.8 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 179 departures with 88.3% leaving on time: a change of −1.2 points, with flights up 34%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 84.2% of the time (240 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 36% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 84.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.0%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BFL in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	87.1%	88.3%	83.5%	79.3%
Arrived on time	84.6%	87.2%	81.3%	78.6%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.4 min	13.4 min	14.9 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	6	8	17,992
Scheduled departures	240	179	2,927	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	132	55%	84.1%	6.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	60	25%	91.7%	0.0 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	48	20%	77.1%	30.5 min	2.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	99	88.9%	-2.0 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	63	84.1%	4.2 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	58	81.0%	12.2 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	20	75.0%	78.9 min	5.0%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	41.9%	36.2%	1,877
Late-arriving aircraft	35.8%	34.7%	1,606
National Aviation System	18.6%	19.9%	835
Extreme weather	3.6%	9.1%	162
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,480 delay minutes on 36 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 2025?

87.1% of 240 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 88.3% of 179 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 87.1% and 0.4% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.