Joe Foss Field in March 2025

82.6%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 592 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.4% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 605 departures with 87.8% leaving on time: a change of −5.2 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 78.4% of the time (592 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 32%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 28%.

On time 80.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FSD in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	82.6%	87.8%	77.7%	79.9%
Arrived on time	80.4%	87.4%	75.5%	79.3%
Cancelled	1.0%	0.7%	2.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.9 min	9.7 min	21.5 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	20	22	20,029
Scheduled departures	592	605	8,034	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	181	31%	81.2%	-5.1 min	0.6%
G4 Allegiant Air	129	22%	82.2%	-1.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	115	19%	73.9%	7.2 min	3.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	10%	85.5%	6.2 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	10%	83.9%	12.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	31	5%	74.2%	-1.9 min	3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	12	2%	83.3%	6.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	136	83.8%	-3.0 min	0.0%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	109	73.4%	12.0 min	0.9%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	93	73.1%	4.2 min	4.3%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	60	86.7%	-2.4 min	1.7%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	54	83.3%	-3.5 min	0.0%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	34	85.3%	-4.1 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	31	87.1%	2.0 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	18	72.2%	4.9 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	17	82.4%	-9.8 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	13	84.6%	0.8 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	9	88.9%	-8.8 min	0.0%
FSD–FLL	Sioux Falls to Fort Lauderdale	9	77.8%	13.7 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	29.2%	33.0%	2,240
Late-arriving aircraft	31.5%	39.2%	2,413
National Aviation System	27.8%	21.9%	2,133
Extreme weather	11.4%	5.9%	877
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,663 delay minutes on 110 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 2025?

82.6% of 592 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 87.8% of 605 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 82.6% and 1.0% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.