Meadows Field in December 2025

80.5%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 December 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 282 domestic departures from Meadows Field (BFL). 80.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.1% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 72.0% of flights departed on time and 71.9% arrived on time, so BFL departures were 8.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in December 2024, the airport had 261 departures with 88.9% leaving on time: a change of −8.4 points, with flights up 8%.

Flights arriving at BFL that month were on time 66.7% of the time (282 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, extreme weather 20% and air carrier 19%.

On time 79.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.5%
Cancelled 1.1%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2025	Dec 2024	BFL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2025
Departed on time	80.5%	88.9%	83.5%	72.0%
Arrived on time	79.1%	87.0%	81.3%	71.9%
Cancelled	1.1%	0.0%	1.4%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.1 min	10.8 min	14.9 min	21.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	9	8	19,410
Scheduled departures	282	261	2,927	582,304

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	227	80%	78.4%	8.8 min	1.3%
AA American Airlines	53	19%	81.1%	24.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	2	1%	100.0%	-2.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BFL–PHX	Bakersfield to Phoenix	126	82.5%	2.3 min	0.8%
BFL–SFO	Bakersfield to San Francisco	63	65.1%	19.6 min	3.2%
BFL–DEN	Bakersfield to Denver	62	85.5%	9.0 min	0.0%
BFL–DFW	Bakersfield to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	80.6%	39.7 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), December 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	19.3%	33.3%	1,089
Late-arriving aircraft	52.3%	41.1%	2,955
National Aviation System	8.2%	19.1%	461
Extreme weather	20.3%	6.4%	1,147
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,652 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 December 2025?

80.5% of 282 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 72.0% and 71.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In December 2024, 88.9% of 261 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 80.5% and 1.1% in December 2025.

Provenance

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