Joe Foss Field in April 2024

89.3%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 598 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 89.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 8.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 83.3% of the time (598 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 40%, national aviation system 25% and late-arriving aircraft 21%.

On time 88.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.0%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	89.3%	—	77.7%	80.5%
Arrived on time	88.5%	—	75.5%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.0%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.5 min	—	21.5 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	22	19,406
Scheduled departures	598	—	8,034	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	244	41%	86.9%	-4.3 min	0.8%
G4 Allegiant Air	83	14%	94.0%	-11.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	83	14%	89.2%	-6.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	59	10%	78.0%	6.1 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	53	9%	96.2%	1.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	30	5%	83.3%	-8.6 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	29	5%	96.6%	-10.9 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	17	3%	88.2%	-6.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	143	86.7%	-3.7 min	0.7%
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	137	86.9%	-6.9 min	0.7%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	116	94.0%	-7.9 min	0.0%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	59	78.0%	6.1 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	30	93.3%	8.3 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	30	83.3%	-2.7 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	28	92.9%	-17.0 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	17	100.0%	-21.9 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	9	100.0%	-20.3 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	9	100.0%	-20.6 min	0.0%
FSD–AUS	Sioux Falls to Austin	8	87.5%	-5.0 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	8	87.5%	21.3 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	39.9%	33.6%	1,867
Late-arriving aircraft	21.3%	41.0%	999
National Aviation System	25.4%	20.0%	1,189
Extreme weather	13.4%	5.1%	629
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,684 delay minutes on 66 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 April 2024?

89.3% of 598 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.