Meadows Field in March 2025

85.9%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 297 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 85.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.5% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 187 departures with 85.0% leaving on time: a change of +0.9 points, with flights up 59%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 77.4% of the time (297 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, late-arriving aircraft 29% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 85.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.5%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	85.9%	85.0%	83.5%	79.9%
Arrived on time	85.5%	85.0%	81.3%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.0%	0.5%	1.4%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.5 min	15.2 min	14.9 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	6	8	20,029
Scheduled departures	297	187	2,927	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	230	77%	85.2%	-4.5 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	21%	87.1%	5.2 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	5	2%	80.0%	-10.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	146	80.8%	4.0 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	62	91.9%	-13.9 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	58	89.7%	-14.3 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	87.1%	11.0 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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	38.5%	33.0%	1,203
Late-arriving aircraft	28.8%	39.2%	898
National Aviation System	20.5%	21.9%	641
Extreme weather	12.2%	5.9%	380
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

3,122 delay minutes on 43 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 March 2025?

85.9% of 297 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 85.0% of 187 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 85.9% and 0.0% in March 2025.

Provenance

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