Joe Foss Field in October 2023

83.0%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 589 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 83.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

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

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 79.3% of the time (589 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 82.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.8%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FSD 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	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	83.0%	—	77.7%	83.8%
Arrived on time	82.5%	—	75.5%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.3 min	—	21.5 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	22	19,966
Scheduled departures	589	—	8,034	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	175	30%	80.6%	1.1 min	1.1%
MQ Envoy Air	91	15%	75.8%	11.2 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	89	15%	79.8%	11.4 min	2.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	64	11%	87.5%	2.5 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	11%	88.7%	0.6 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	50	8%	84.0%	0.7 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	37	6%	94.6%	-11.1 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	17	3%	82.4%	-1.7 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	4	1%	75.0%	9.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	137	83.2%	-1.2 min	0.7%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	125	80.8%	10.3 min	0.0%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	118	88.1%	-3.9 min	0.0%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	66	75.8%	12.8 min	4.5%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	31	83.9%	5.6 min	0.0%
FSD–CLT	Sioux Falls to Charlotte	31	87.1%	5.4 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	31	71.0%	5.8 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	20	85.0%	0.5 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	13	84.6%	-2.2 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	4.3 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	8	75.0%	2.0 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	32.3%	41.3%	2,112
Late-arriving aircraft	52.2%	40.5%	3,405
National Aviation System	10.1%	14.4%	658
Extreme weather	5.4%	3.7%	354
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

6,529 delay minutes on 99 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 FSD on time in October 2023?

83.0% of 589 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% 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 FSD · methodology · corrections.