Rafael Hernandez in May 2025

85.9%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 May 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 198 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 85.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.4% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so BQN departures were 9.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 254 departures with 75.2% leaving on time: a change of +10.7 points, with flights down 22%.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 77.3% of the time (198 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 58%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 86.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.1%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	85.9%	75.2%	75.3%	76.7%
Arrived on time	86.4%	80.3%	75.7%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.5%	1.6%	2.3%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.4 min	16.2 min	19.0 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	9	6	20,188
Scheduled departures	198	254	2,218	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	134	68%	88.8%	-4.4 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	33	17%	75.8%	-1.1 min	3.0%
UA United Airlines	31	16%	87.1%	-14.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	88	81.8%	0.3 min	1.1%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	54	92.6%	-9.1 min	0.0%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	31	87.1%	-14.8 min	0.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	23	87.0%	-2.8 min	0.0%
BQN–MIA	Aguadilla to Miami	2	100.0%	-47.0 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), May 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	28.2%	29.3%	390
Late-arriving aircraft	58.2%	37.8%	805
National Aviation System	13.7%	25.9%	189
Extreme weather	0.0%	6.9%	0
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

1,384 delay minutes on 26 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 May 2025?

85.9% of 198 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 75.2% of 254 departures left on time and 1.6% were cancelled, against 85.9% and 0.5% in May 2025.

Provenance

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