Bismarck Municipal in March 2024

85.6%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 292 domestic departures from Bismarck Municipal (BIS). 85.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 2.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so BIS departures were 7.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BIS that month were on time 86.3% of the time (292 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 54%, late-arriving aircraft 21% and air carrier 19%.

On time 84.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.3%
Cancelled 2.7%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BIS in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	BIS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	85.6%	—	81.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	84.9%	—	79.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	2.7%	—	0.7%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.1 min	—	18.7 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	11	19,726
Scheduled departures	292	—	3,874	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	166	57%	86.7%	-9.7 min	4.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	49	17%	77.6%	1.9 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	46	16%	87.0%	-7.2 min	2.2%
MQ Envoy Air	31	11%	83.9%	-7.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BIS–MSP	Bismarck/Mandan to Minneapolis	119	87.4%	-9.2 min	3.4%
BIS–DEN	Bismarck/Mandan to Denver	93	86.0%	-9.0 min	4.3%
BIS–AZA	Bismarck/Mandan to Phoenix	31	80.6%	-2.4 min	0.0%
BIS–DFW	Bismarck/Mandan to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	83.9%	-7.1 min	0.0%
BIS–LAS	Bismarck/Mandan to Las Vegas	9	77.8%	0.9 min	0.0%
BIS–SFB	Bismarck/Mandan to Sanford	9	66.7%	17.3 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	19.2%	32.1%	331
Late-arriving aircraft	21.4%	42.1%	369
National Aviation System	53.7%	21.4%	925
Extreme weather	5.4%	4.2%	93
Security	0.2%	0.2%	3

1,721 delay minutes on 36 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 March 2024?

85.6% of 292 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.