Bismarck Municipal in August 2023

87.9%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 289 domestic departures from Bismarck Municipal (BIS). 87.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.5% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so BIS departures were 11.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BIS that month were on time 84.0% of the time (288 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 81%, national aviation system 8% and late-arriving aircraft 8%.

On time 87.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.1%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from BIS in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	BIS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	87.9%	—	81.5%	76.7%
Arrived on time	87.5%	—	79.5%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	0.7%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.5 min	—	18.7 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	11	20,100
Scheduled departures	289	—	3,874	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	186	64%	86.6%	-1.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	46	16%	89.1%	-6.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	11%	93.5%	21.3 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	26	9%	84.6%	6.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BIS–MSP	Bismarck/Mandan to Minneapolis	124	95.2%	-5.5 min	0.0%
BIS–DEN	Bismarck/Mandan to Denver	93	77.4%	12.5 min	0.0%
BIS–DFW	Bismarck/Mandan to Dallas/Fort Worth	46	89.1%	-6.6 min	0.0%
BIS–AZA	Bismarck/Mandan to Phoenix	13	92.3%	3.8 min	0.0%
BIS–LAS	Bismarck/Mandan to Las Vegas	9	66.7%	12.1 min	0.0%
BIS–SFB	Bismarck/Mandan to Sanford	4	100.0%	0.5 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	81.4%	36.7%	2,875
Late-arriving aircraft	7.7%	42.2%	273
National Aviation System	7.8%	15.7%	277
Extreme weather	3.1%	5.1%	108
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,533 delay minutes on 35 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 BIS on time in August 2023?

87.9% of 289 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BIS · methodology · corrections.