Joe Foss Field in March 2024

87.8%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 605 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 87.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.4% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 9.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 81.5% of the time (605 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, national aviation system 24% and extreme weather 19%.

On time 87.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.9%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	87.8%	—	77.7%	78.5%
Arrived on time	87.4%	—	75.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.0%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	—	21.5 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	22	19,726
Scheduled departures	605	—	8,034	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	171	28%	88.3%	-12.8 min	1.8%
G4 Allegiant Air	116	19%	75.0%	16.8 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	84	14%	92.9%	-12.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	70	12%	92.9%	-14.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	10%	85.5%	-6.3 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	53	9%	94.3%	5.0 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	19	3%	84.2%	-6.4 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	16	3%	93.8%	-10.9 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	14	2%	100.0%	-22.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	143	87.4%	-14.5 min	1.4%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	119	89.1%	-4.3 min	0.8%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	98	98.0%	-13.8 min	0.0%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	85.5%	-6.3 min	1.6%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	41	92.7%	-8.6 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	36	88.9%	-10.5 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	31	96.8%	-8.8 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	20	70.0%	5.4 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	11	81.8%	11.8 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	9	66.7%	123.1 min	0.0%
FSD–FLL	Sioux Falls to Fort Lauderdale	9	55.6%	45.4 min	0.0%
FSD–PGD	Sioux Falls to Punta Gorda	9	55.6%	23.4 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	12.8%	32.1%	702
Late-arriving aircraft	44.1%	42.1%	2,413
National Aviation System	23.7%	21.4%	1,293
Extreme weather	19.4%	4.2%	1,059
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,467 delay minutes on 72 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 March 2024?

87.8% of 605 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.