Meadows Field in October 2025

86.4%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 257 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 86.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.2% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 259 departures with 91.5% leaving on time: a change of −5.1 points, with flights down 1%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 75.9% of the time (257 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 26%.

On time 85.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.4%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	86.4%	91.5%	83.5%	80.0%
Arrived on time	85.2%	90.0%	81.3%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.5 min	9.7 min	14.9 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	9	8	20,195
Scheduled departures	257	259	2,927	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	153	60%	88.9%	-2.4 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	101	39%	79.2%	5.5 min	1.0%
MQ Envoy Air	3	1%	100.0%	-16.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	102	78.4%	9.3 min	0.0%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	62	95.2%	-10.2 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	62	87.1%	-1.8 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	83.9%	-2.7 min	3.2%

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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	41.6%	34.0%	1,069
Late-arriving aircraft	29.7%	39.7%	763
National Aviation System	25.5%	22.9%	655
Extreme weather	3.3%	3.3%	85
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

2,572 delay minutes on 37 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 October 2025?

86.4% of 257 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 91.5% of 259 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 86.4% and 0.4% in October 2025.

Provenance

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