Joe Foss Field in May 2024

84.1%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 572 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 84.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.3% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 10.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 71.0% of the time (572 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 23%.

On time 81.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	84.1%	—	77.7%	73.4%
Arrived on time	81.3%	—	75.5%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	2.0%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.1 min	—	21.5 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	22	20,325
Scheduled departures	572	—	8,034	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	192	34%	87.5%	-5.4 min	0.5%
G4 Allegiant Air	78	14%	75.6%	25.5 min	1.3%
MQ Envoy Air	65	11%	80.0%	20.9 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	11%	67.7%	31.7 min	4.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	11%	82.3%	-1.4 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	61	11%	85.2%	0.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	34	6%	88.2%	-4.7 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	18	3%	61.1%	22.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	142	82.4%	-2.4 min	0.7%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	119	89.9%	-4.5 min	0.0%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	109	80.7%	15.5 min	0.0%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	67.7%	31.7 min	4.8%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	31	74.2%	0.6 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	31	93.5%	-10.0 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	27	92.6%	-8.1 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	12	83.3%	-7.7 min	8.3%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	11	63.6%	85.9 min	0.0%
FSD–AUS	Sioux Falls to Austin	9	55.6%	5.4 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	9	33.3%	146.7 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	9	88.9%	-5.2 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.9%	29.8%	2,602
Late-arriving aircraft	42.8%	43.0%	4,129
National Aviation System	23.1%	20.1%	2,230
Extreme weather	7.2%	7.0%	695
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

9,656 delay minutes on 101 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 May 2024?

84.1% of 572 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.