Joe Foss Field in April 2025

83.3%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 604 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 83.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.3% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 598 departures with 89.3% leaving on time: a change of −6.0 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 77.5% of the time (604 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 35%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and air carrier 23%.

On time 77.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.0%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.7%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2025	Apr 2024	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time	83.3%	89.3%	77.7%	80.6%
Arrived on time	77.3%	88.5%	75.5%	79.5%
Cancelled	1.0%	0.3%	2.0%	0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	8.5 min	21.5 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	20	22	19,465
Scheduled departures	604	598	8,034	583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	202	33%	75.2%	10.2 min	0.5%
MQ Envoy Air	171	28%	73.7%	0.5 min	1.8%
G4 Allegiant Air	99	16%	85.9%	-3.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	60	10%	86.7%	-5.4 min	1.7%
UA United Airlines	60	10%	78.3%	14.0 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	8	1%	62.5%	24.0 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	4	1%	0.0%	21.5 min	25.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	149	72.5%	17.0 min	0.7%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	144	77.1%	3.9 min	0.7%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	90	63.3%	3.0 min	3.3%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	62	90.3%	-4.0 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	40	87.5%	-0.3 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	30	73.3%	-0.1 min	3.3%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	30	93.3%	-5.7 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	14	78.6%	-8.4 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	13	84.6%	1.5 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	12	83.3%	-1.3 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	8	100.0%	-16.2 min	0.0%
FSD–FLL	Sioux Falls to Fort Lauderdale	6	100.0%	-21.2 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	23.3%	32.7%	1,849
Late-arriving aircraft	30.1%	39.4%	2,391
National Aviation System	34.5%	22.2%	2,740
Extreme weather	12.2%	5.5%	972
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

7,952 delay minutes on 127 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 2025?

83.3% of 604 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 89.3% of 598 departures left on time and 0.3% were cancelled, against 83.3% and 1.0% in April 2025.

Provenance

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