Rafael Hernandez in October 2025

81.1%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 159 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 81.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.6% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so BQN departures were 1.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 146 departures with 80.8% leaving on time: a change of +0.3 points, with flights up 9%.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 72.0% of the time (161 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 64%, national aviation system 21% and air carrier 12%.

On time 78.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.8%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	81.1%	80.8%	75.3%	80.0%
Arrived on time	78.6%	82.9%	75.7%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.6%	3.4%	2.3%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.4 min	10.1 min	19.0 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	5	5	6	20,195
Scheduled departures	159	146	2,218	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	95	60%	83.2%	-3.4 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	33	21%	72.7%	-2.6 min	3.0%
UA United Airlines	31	19%	71.0%	-0.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	69	78.3%	-1.3 min	1.4%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	31	71.0%	-0.2 min	0.0%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	31	83.9%	-3.7 min	0.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	28	82.1%	-7.0 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	11.8%	34.0%	150
Late-arriving aircraft	63.7%	39.7%	811
National Aviation System	21.3%	22.9%	271
Extreme weather	3.3%	3.3%	42
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

1,274 delay minutes on 33 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 October 2025?

81.1% of 159 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 80.8% of 146 departures left on time and 3.4% were cancelled, against 81.1% and 0.6% in October 2025.

Provenance

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