Joe Foss Field in February 2024

83.4%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 578 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 83.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 83.6% of the time (578 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 24% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 83.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.2%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	83.4%	—	77.7%	84.0%
Arrived on time	83.9%	—	75.5%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.0%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.4 min	—	21.5 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	22	17,307
Scheduled departures	578	—	8,034	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	202	35%	83.7%	2.0 min	1.0%
MQ Envoy Air	102	18%	91.2%	-4.4 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	95	16%	71.6%	10.0 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	58	10%	81.0%	-3.0 min	3.4%
9E Endeavor Air	33	6%	97.0%	-17.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	29	5%	82.8%	-3.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	29	5%	89.7%	9.8 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	15	3%	80.0%	-0.3 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	15	3%	93.3%	-9.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	131	77.9%	3.1 min	1.5%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	127	91.3%	-5.6 min	0.8%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	107	87.9%	0.3 min	0.9%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	57	86.0%	-7.1 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	34	79.4%	-2.5 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	32	93.8%	-10.9 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	29	89.7%	9.8 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	17	58.8%	23.4 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	10	100.0%	-8.2 min	0.0%
FSD–FLL	Sioux Falls to Fort Lauderdale	9	55.6%	21.9 min	0.0%
FSD–PGD	Sioux Falls to Punta Gorda	9	66.7%	26.7 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	8	50.0%	22.3 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	42.4%	35.9%	3,250
Late-arriving aircraft	23.6%	36.9%	1,809
National Aviation System	20.3%	21.7%	1,555
Extreme weather	13.8%	5.3%	1,058
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

7,672 delay minutes on 88 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 February 2024?

83.4% of 578 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.