Joe Foss Field in October 2025

83.8%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 681 domestic departures from Joe Foss Field (FSD). 83.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.9% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so FSD departures were 3.8 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 619 departures with 87.6% leaving on time: a change of −3.8 points, with flights up 10%.

Flights arriving at FSD that month were on time 80.2% of the time (682 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 75.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.5%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	FSD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	83.8%	87.6%	77.7%	80.0%
Arrived on time	75.9%	88.2%	75.5%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.3%	0.6%	2.0%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.9 min	6.6 min	21.5 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	23	21	22	20,195
Scheduled departures	681	619	8,034	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	327	48%	77.1%	6.2 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	76	11%	71.1%	11.1 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	75	11%	78.7%	37.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	9%	74.2%	5.3 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	9%	74.2%	15.0 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	9%	72.6%	16.9 min	1.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	17	2%	88.2%	-6.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FSD–DEN	Sioux Falls to Denver	161	84.5%	-3.6 min	0.0%
FSD–ORD	Sioux Falls to Chicago	148	58.1%	27.9 min	0.7%
FSD–MSP	Sioux Falls to Minneapolis	118	88.1%	2.5 min	0.0%
FSD–DFW	Sioux Falls to Dallas/Fort Worth	92	76.1%	6.1 min	1.1%
FSD–PHX	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	56	71.4%	9.2 min	0.0%
FSD–ATL	Sioux Falls to Atlanta	31	71.0%	4.5 min	0.0%
FSD–AZA	Sioux Falls to Phoenix	30	73.3%	15.0 min	0.0%
FSD–LAS	Sioux Falls to Las Vegas	18	72.2%	89.4 min	0.0%
FSD–BNA	Sioux Falls to Nashville	9	77.8%	94.8 min	0.0%
FSD–PIE	Sioux Falls to St. Petersburg	9	100.0%	-6.7 min	0.0%
FSD–SFB	Sioux Falls to Sanford	9	88.9%	-2.2 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	41.2%	34.0%	5,133
Late-arriving aircraft	33.5%	39.7%	4,175
National Aviation System	16.3%	22.9%	2,031
Extreme weather	7.8%	3.3%	971
Security	1.2%	0.1%	152

12,462 delay minutes on 160 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 October 2025?

83.8% of 681 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 87.6% of 619 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 83.8% and 0.3% in October 2025.

Provenance

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