Rafael Hernandez in December 2025

72.1%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 December 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 226 domestic departures from Rafael Hernandez (BQN). 72.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 71.7% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 72.0% of flights departed on time and 71.9% arrived on time, so BQN departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in December 2024, the airport had 226 departures with 70.4% leaving on time: a change of +1.7 points, with flights up 0%.

Flights arriving at BQN that month were on time 59.8% of the time (224 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 26% and security 15%.

On time 71.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.2%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 1.8%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2025	Dec 2024	BQN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2025
Departed on time	72.1%	70.4%	75.3%	72.0%
Arrived on time	71.7%	73.0%	75.7%	71.9%
Cancelled	1.3%	0.4%	2.3%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	24.1 min	25.3 min	19.0 min	21.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	8	6	19,410
Scheduled departures	226	226	2,218	582,304

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	152	67%	67.1%	14.6 min	2.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	43	19%	76.7%	26.3 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	14%	87.1%	-5.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BQN–MCO	Aguadilla to Orlando	103	71.8%	13.0 min	1.0%
BQN–FLL	Aguadilla to Fort Lauderdale	47	63.8%	16.2 min	2.1%
BQN–JFK	Aguadilla to New York	45	68.9%	28.1 min	2.2%
BQN–EWR	Aguadilla to Newark	31	87.1%	-5.1 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), December 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	25.7%	33.3%	1,283
Late-arriving aircraft	48.9%	41.1%	2,443
National Aviation System	10.5%	19.1%	523
Extreme weather	0.0%	6.4%	0
Security	14.9%	0.2%	742

4,991 delay minutes on 57 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 December 2025?

72.1% of 226 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 71.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 72.0% and 71.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In December 2024, 70.4% of 226 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 72.1% and 1.3% in December 2025.

Provenance

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