Joe Foss Field in January 2024

70.7%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 570 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 70.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 65.8% reached their destination on time; 3.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 3.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 73.7% of the time (570 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 33%, national aviation system 28% and extreme weather 21%.

On time 65.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 30.4%
Cancelled 3.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FSD in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.7%	—	77.7%	74.0%
Arrived on time	65.8%	—	75.5%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.9%	—	2.0%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.4 min	—	21.5 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	22	18,242
Scheduled departures	570	—	8,034	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	235	41%	70.2%	12.8 min	4.3%
MQ Envoy Air	96	17%	47.9%	32.2 min	8.3%
G4 Allegiant Air	87	15%	78.2%	-3.3 min	1.1%
UA United Airlines	46	8%	65.2%	25.9 min	4.3%
9E Endeavor Air	43	8%	65.1%	18.7 min	2.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	38	7%	57.9%	63.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	15	3%	66.7%	19.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	10	2%	60.0%	4.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	134	68.7%	13.0 min	3.0%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	118	71.2%	18.8 min	4.2%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	104	53.8%	28.8 min	8.7%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	62.9%	19.0 min	4.8%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	34	50.0%	70.2 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	31	61.3%	10.3 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	30	86.7%	-11.3 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	17	76.5%	-4.8 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	10	60.0%	5.0 min	10.0%
FSD–FLL	Sioux Falls to Fort Lauderdale	9	66.7%	15.7 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	9	77.8%	0.4 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	8	100.0%	-17.0 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	33.2%	32.6%	4,673
Late-arriving aircraft	17.7%	39.0%	2,498
National Aviation System	27.5%	17.9%	3,878
Extreme weather	20.6%	10.3%	2,900
Security	1.0%	0.2%	136

14,085 delay minutes on 173 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 January 2024?

70.7% of 570 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 65.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.