Meadows Field in November 2025

84.8%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 November 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 277 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 84.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.0% reached their destination on time; 2.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.1% of flights departed on time and 77.3% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 6.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, the airport had 265 departures with 83.4% leaving on time: a change of +1.4 points, with flights up 5%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 76.1% of the time (276 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 25%.

On time 78.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.1%
Cancelled 2.5%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2025
Departed on time	84.8%	83.4%	83.5%	78.1%
Arrived on time	78.0%	80.4%	81.3%	77.3%
Cancelled	2.5%	2.3%	1.4%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.8 min	11.2 min	14.9 min	15.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	9	8	19,018
Scheduled departures	277	265	2,927	570,550

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	215	78%	77.7%	5.1 min	3.3%
AA American Airlines	62	22%	79.0%	9.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	129	69.8%	12.8 min	5.4%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	59	94.9%	-8.5 min	0.0%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	59	79.7%	5.4 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	30	76.7%	9.1 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), November 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	34.0%	30.2%	1,229
Late-arriving aircraft	37.4%	38.3%	1,350
National Aviation System	25.1%	26.7%	905
Extreme weather	3.5%	4.6%	128
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

3,612 delay minutes on 53 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 November 2025?

84.8% of 277 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.1% and 77.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024, 83.4% of 265 departures left on time and 2.3% were cancelled, against 84.8% and 2.5% in November 2025.

Provenance

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