Hector International in July 2024

77.0%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 583 domestic departures from Hector International (FAR). 77.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.8% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so FAR departures were 8.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FAR that month were on time 73.6% of the time (584 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 54%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 75.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.3%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FAR in July 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	FAR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	77.0%	—	79.5%	68.5%
Arrived on time	75.8%	—	77.0%	68.1%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.7%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.5 min	—	18.8 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	19	21,154
Scheduled departures	583	—	6,893	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	275	47%	73.1%	15.3 min	0.4%
MQ Envoy Air	149	26%	79.2%	13.8 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	11%	82.3%	5.6 min	3.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	57	10%	75.4%	21.1 min	3.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	31	5%	77.4%	4.3 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	9	2%	55.6%	19.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FAR–DEN	Fargo to Denver	153	80.4%	3.7 min	0.0%
FAR–MSP	Fargo to Minneapolis	145	71.7%	13.7 min	1.4%
FAR–ORD	Fargo to Chicago	136	72.8%	28.4 min	0.7%
FAR–DFW	Fargo to Dallas/Fort Worth	92	79.3%	5.9 min	0.0%
FAR–AZA	Fargo to Phoenix	31	80.6%	4.9 min	0.0%
FAR–LAS	Fargo to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	-11.9 min	11.1%
FAR–SFB	Fargo to Sanford	9	88.9%	-16.6 min	11.1%
FAR–BNA	Fargo to Nashville	8	25.0%	154.5 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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	53.9%	36.6%	6,224
Late-arriving aircraft	31.4%	42.7%	3,631
National Aviation System	10.4%	16.0%	1,200
Extreme weather	4.3%	4.6%	502
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

11,557 delay minutes on 136 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 July 2024?

77.0% of 583 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.