Meadows Field in February 2025

86.3%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 February 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 240 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.5% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.2% of flights departed on time and 77.9% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 7.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in February 2024, the airport had 179 departures with 87.7% leaving on time: a change of −1.4 points, with flights up 34%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 72.1% of the time (240 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 23%.

On time 87.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.5%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2025	Feb 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2025
Departed on time	86.3%	87.7%	83.5%	79.2%
Arrived on time	87.5%	88.8%	81.3%	77.9%
Cancelled	0.0%	1.1%	1.4%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.0 min	8.2 min	14.9 min	15.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	6	8	16,830
Scheduled departures	240	179	2,927	504,884

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	151	63%	86.1%	3.9 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	50	21%	86.0%	-8.4 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	39	16%	94.9%	-12.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	108	88.0%	-5.1 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	56	89.3%	-4.8 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	54	81.5%	16.1 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	22	95.5%	-16.0 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), February 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	41.3%	33.9%	1,295
Late-arriving aircraft	26.1%	36.9%	819
National Aviation System	22.8%	22.5%	714
Extreme weather	9.7%	6.6%	304
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

3,132 delay minutes on 30 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 February 2025?

86.3% of 240 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.2% and 77.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In February 2024, 87.7% of 179 departures left on time and 1.1% were cancelled, against 86.3% and 0.0% in February 2025.

Provenance

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