Meadows Field in July 2025

79.3%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 July 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 246 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 79.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.4% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 69.7% of flights departed on time and 69.0% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 9.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in July 2024, the airport had 266 departures with 88.0% leaving on time: a change of −8.7 points, with flights down 8%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 63.8% of the time (246 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 47%, late-arriving aircraft 40% and national aviation system 8%.

On time 76.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.4%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.8%

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

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

Measure	Jul 2025	Jul 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2025
Departed on time	79.3%	88.0%	83.5%	69.7%
Arrived on time	76.4%	85.0%	81.3%	69.0%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.4%	1.4%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	30.5 min	13.7 min	14.9 min	24.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	9	8	21,048
Scheduled departures	246	266	2,927	631,428

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	123	50%	74.0%	12.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	62	25%	83.9%	1.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	61	25%	73.8%	69.8 min	1.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	92	84.8%	13.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	62	71.0%	12.1 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	61	77.0%	13.4 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	61.3%	101.0 min	3.2%

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), July 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	46.5%	31.1%	3,458
Late-arriving aircraft	40.1%	40.8%	2,985
National Aviation System	8.0%	20.7%	596
Extreme weather	5.4%	7.3%	400
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,439 delay minutes on 55 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 2025?

79.3% of 246 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 69.7% and 69.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In July 2024, 88.0% of 266 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 79.3% and 0.4% in July 2025.

Provenance

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