Hector International in March 2025

80.6%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 690 domestic departures from Hector International (FAR). 80.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.1% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so FAR departures were 0.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 556 departures with 87.1% leaving on time: a change of −6.5 points, with flights up 24%.

Flights arriving at FAR that month were on time 79.1% of the time (690 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 24%.

On time 79.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.7%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from FAR in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	FAR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	80.6%	87.1%	79.5%	79.9%
Arrived on time	79.1%	86.7%	77.0%	79.3%
Cancelled	1.0%	1.4%	1.7%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.0 min	10.0 min	18.8 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	23	19	19	20,029
Scheduled departures	690	556	6,893	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	254	37%	79.1%	5.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	214	31%	74.8%	5.1 min	2.8%
G4 Allegiant Air	108	16%	83.3%	-2.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	9%	88.7%	-3.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	4%	71.0%	7.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	21	3%	85.7%	-6.7 min	4.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FAR–ORD	Fargo to Chicago	194	73.2%	10.4 min	0.5%
FAR–MSP	Fargo to Minneapolis	127	88.2%	-3.0 min	0.0%
FAR–DEN	Fargo to Denver	120	75.0%	6.4 min	0.0%
FAR–DFW	Fargo to Dallas/Fort Worth	93	80.6%	-3.5 min	3.2%
FAR–AZA	Fargo to Phoenix	54	79.6%	-4.9 min	0.0%
FAR–PHX	Fargo to Phoenix	36	75.0%	8.4 min	5.6%
FAR–LAS	Fargo to Las Vegas	18	100.0%	-17.2 min	0.0%
FAR–PIE	Fargo to St. Petersburg	18	77.8%	15.2 min	0.0%
FAR–BNA	Fargo to Nashville	9	100.0%	-9.4 min	0.0%
FAR–MCO	Fargo to Orlando	9	88.9%	-24.1 min	11.1%
FAR–SFB	Fargo to Sanford	9	66.7%	11.3 min	0.0%
FAR–ATL	Fargo to Atlanta	3	66.7%	8.3 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	28.7%	33.0%	2,696
Late-arriving aircraft	37.6%	39.2%	3,537
National Aviation System	23.6%	21.9%	2,221
Extreme weather	10.1%	5.9%	947
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

9,401 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 March 2025?

80.6% of 690 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 87.1% of 556 departures left on time and 1.4% were cancelled, against 80.6% and 1.0% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.