Hector International in March 2024

87.1%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 556 domestic departures from Hector International (FAR). 87.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.7% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so FAR departures were 8.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FAR that month were on time 84.7% of the time (557 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 30%, national aviation system 29% and late-arriving aircraft 22%.

On time 86.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.9%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FAR 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	FAR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	87.1%	—	79.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	86.7%	—	77.0%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	1.7%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.0 min	—	18.8 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	19	19,726
Scheduled departures	556	—	6,893	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	234	42%	85.9%	-2.0 min	2.6%
MQ Envoy Air	151	27%	88.1%	-7.3 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	73	13%	84.9%	-2.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	54	10%	92.6%	-15.6 min	1.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines	35	6%	82.9%	-1.5 min	2.9%
9E Endeavor Air	9	2%	77.8%	-12.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FAR–MSP	Fargo to Minneapolis	142	88.7%	-5.7 min	1.4%
FAR–ORD	Fargo to Chicago	120	88.3%	-7.3 min	0.8%
FAR–DEN	Fargo to Denver	111	85.6%	-5.5 min	4.5%
FAR–DFW	Fargo to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	79.0%	-3.1 min	0.0%
FAR–AZA	Fargo to Phoenix	31	93.5%	-13.5 min	0.0%
FAR–PHX	Fargo to Phoenix	31	100.0%	-10.1 min	0.0%
FAR–MCO	Fargo to Orlando	17	76.5%	11.6 min	0.0%
FAR–LAS	Fargo to Las Vegas	13	92.3%	5.1 min	0.0%
FAR–PIE	Fargo to St. Petersburg	11	54.5%	27.5 min	0.0%
FAR–BNA	Fargo to Nashville	9	88.9%	-12.7 min	0.0%
FAR–SFB	Fargo to Sanford	9	77.8%	-2.4 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	29.8%	32.1%	1,474
Late-arriving aircraft	21.5%	42.1%	1,065
National Aviation System	28.9%	21.4%	1,429
Extreme weather	19.9%	4.2%	983
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,951 delay minutes on 66 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 FAR on time in March 2024?

87.1% of 556 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.7% 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 FAR · methodology · corrections.