Aguadilla, PR · Airport profile

BQN

Rafael Hernández International Airport

BQN right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

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Departures at this hour

77.8% leave on time

13:00–13:59 local · 177 departures on record

Typical taxi out13 min
Median arrival7 min early
Cancelled0.6%

When flights run late in this hour, most of the delay is attributed to late-arriving aircraft.

Historical pattern for BQN from US DOT BTS — not a live reading.

Aviation weather

No current observation is available for this airport.

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Airport reliability

Not enough data. FlyerIntel publishes reliability metrics only for airports with at least 5,000 flights in the analysis period.

Best time to fly from BQN

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.5% of the time, against 66.6% for 3–6 PM departures — a gap of 20.9 percentage points.

By departure window

5–9 AM87.5%
9 AM–12 PM83.6%
12–3 PM77.3%
3–6 PM66.6%
6–9 PM67.6%
9 PM–5 AM76.2%

By departure hour

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

What to expect at BQN

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day
7
Average across the analysis period
Busiest hour
5 AM
About 1 departures
Typical taxi-out
12.8 min
Pushback to wheels-up

Scheduled departures by hour

The busiest hour is 5 AM, with about 1 departures a day, against roughly 0 at 10 AM. Counterintuitively, that peak is also more punctual than a typical hour here — early banks fly aircraft that have been on the ground overnight rather than ones inheriting the day’s delays.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Taxi-out is the time between leaving the gate and lifting off, averaged across departures and weighted by hour.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon76.2%
Tue79.0%
Wed80.1%
Thu77.6%
Fri78.1%
Sat74.6%
Sun75.0%

Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Saturday the least, a gap of 5.5 percentage points.

By month

July is historically the weakest month and May the strongest, a spread of 14.9 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026

Airlines at BQN

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

CarrierDeparturesOn timeCancelledMedian delay
JetBlue B64,58377.6%1.61%-7 min
Frontier Airlines F91,39376.3%1.58%-7 min
United Airlines UA1,09679.7%2.65%-13 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from BQN

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Busiest routes

DestinationFlightsOn timeScore
BQNMCO Orlando2,99176.7%57
BQNJFK New York1,71980.6%63
BQNFLL Fort Lauderdale1,11073.9%54
BQNEWR Newark1,09679.7%60

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026 · Only routes with at least 750 flights are ranked.

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – June 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – June 2026, comprising 7,343 departures from BQN. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Live conditions

Aviation weather comes from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center. Operational events come from the FAA where available. FlyerIntel shows the age of every live value and does not display data it cannot currently retrieve.

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