Rafael Hernandez in April 2024

83.3%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 234 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 83.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.2% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BQN departures were 2.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 83.3% of the time (234 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 51%, late-arriving aircraft 41% and national aviation system 7%.

On time 84.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.4%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	83.3%	—	75.3%	80.5%
Arrived on time	84.2%	—	75.7%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	2.3%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.8 min	—	19.0 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	19,406
Scheduled departures	234	—	2,218	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	150	64%	85.3%	2.5 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	54	23%	83.3%	-6.6 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	30	13%	80.0%	-2.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	84	83.3%	-3.1 min	0.0%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	60	85.0%	1.3 min	1.7%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	30	80.0%	-2.2 min	0.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	30	90.0%	-2.9 min	0.0%
BQN–TPA	Aguadilla to Tampa	30	83.3%	9.8 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	50.9%	33.6%	1,455
Late-arriving aircraft	41.2%	41.0%	1,178
National Aviation System	6.7%	20.0%	191
Extreme weather	1.3%	5.1%	37
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,861 delay minutes on 36 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 April 2024?

83.3% of 234 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.