Rafael Hernandez in January 2024

79.9%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 229 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 79.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.5% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so BQN departures were 5.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 71.8% of the time (227 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 79.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.1%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BQN in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	79.9%	—	75.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	79.5%	—	75.7%	72.9%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	2.3%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.7 min	—	19.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	18,242
Scheduled departures	229	—	2,218	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	143	62%	80.4%	2.2 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	55	24%	76.4%	13.6 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	14%	80.6%	32.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	72	76.4%	10.3 min	0.0%
BQN–TPA	Aguadilla to Tampa	49	71.4%	12.1 min	2.0%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	46	87.0%	-4.7 min	0.0%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	31	80.6%	32.6 min	0.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	31	87.1%	-1.4 min	0.0%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	36.2%	32.6%	1,512
Late-arriving aircraft	52.9%	39.0%	2,210
National Aviation System	10.5%	17.9%	437
Extreme weather	0.4%	10.3%	17
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,176 delay minutes on 46 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 BQN on time in January 2024?

79.9% of 229 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BQN · methodology · corrections.