Rafael Hernandez in January 2025

79.4%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 204 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 79.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.4% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so BQN departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 229 departures with 79.9% leaving on time: a change of −0.5 points, with flights down 11%.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 74.0% of the time (204 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 69%, air carrier 22% and national aviation system 8%.

On time 82.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.7%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BQN in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	79.4%	79.9%	75.3%	79.3%
Arrived on time	82.4%	79.5%	75.7%	78.6%
Cancelled	1.0%	0.4%	2.3%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.2 min	18.7 min	19.0 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	8	6	17,992
Scheduled departures	204	229	2,218	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	136	67%	81.6%	2.4 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	37	18%	89.2%	-12.1 min	2.7%
UA United Airlines	31	15%	77.4%	3.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	91	85.7%	-6.3 min	1.1%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	62	85.5%	2.2 min	1.6%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	31	77.4%	3.4 min	0.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	20	65.0%	16.2 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	21.6%	36.2%	542
Late-arriving aircraft	69.1%	34.7%	1,737
National Aviation System	8.2%	19.9%	205
Extreme weather	1.2%	9.1%	31
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,515 delay minutes on 34 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 2025?

79.4% of 204 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 79.9% of 229 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 79.4% and 1.0% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.