Bismarck Municipal in October 2023

84.6%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 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 337 domestic departures from Bismarck Municipal (BIS). 84.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.6% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so BIS departures were 0.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BIS that month were on time 84.0% of the time (337 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 64%, late-arriving aircraft 15% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 81.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.1%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	BIS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	84.6%	—	81.5%	83.8%
Arrived on time	81.6%	—	79.5%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	0.7%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.3 min	—	18.7 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	11	19,966
Scheduled departures	337	—	3,874	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	212	63%	83.5%	4.5 min	0.5%
MQ Envoy Air	62	18%	75.8%	6.6 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	32	9%	75.0%	7.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	9%	87.1%	2.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BIS–DEN	Bismarck/Mandan to Denver	122	80.3%	3.3 min	0.8%
BIS–MSP	Bismarck/Mandan to Minneapolis	121	87.6%	5.3 min	0.0%
BIS–DFW	Bismarck/Mandan to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	75.8%	6.6 min	0.0%
BIS–AZA	Bismarck/Mandan to Phoenix	16	75.0%	5.9 min	0.0%
BIS–LAS	Bismarck/Mandan to Las Vegas	16	75.0%	9.4 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	63.8%	41.3%	3,599
Late-arriving aircraft	14.9%	40.5%	843
National Aviation System	10.1%	14.4%	570
Extreme weather	10.0%	3.7%	563
Security	1.2%	0.2%	67

5,642 delay minutes on 61 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 October 2023?

84.6% of 337 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.