Great Falls International in March 2024

89.6%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 230 domestic departures from Great Falls International (GTF). 89.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.0% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so GTF departures were 11.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at GTF that month were on time 88.3% of the time (230 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 26% and extreme weather 24%.

On time 87.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.2%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from GTF in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	GTF, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	89.6%	—	88.2%	78.5%
Arrived on time	87.0%	—	87.7%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	0.8%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	10.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	19,726
Scheduled departures	230	—	2,168	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	212	92%	89.2%	-2.5 min	0.9%
G4 Allegiant Air	18	8%	61.1%	71.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
GTF–SLC	Great Falls to Salt Lake City	88	92.0%	-3.4 min	0.0%
GTF–DEN	Great Falls to Denver	62	85.5%	-3.9 min	3.2%
GTF–MSP	Great Falls to Minneapolis	31	96.8%	-6.7 min	0.0%
GTF–SEA	Great Falls to Seattle	31	80.6%	7.1 min	0.0%
GTF–AZA	Great Falls to Phoenix	9	66.7%	15.0 min	0.0%
GTF–LAS	Great Falls to Las Vegas	9	55.6%	127.4 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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.4%	32.1%	783
Late-arriving aircraft	39.9%	42.1%	1,184
National Aviation System	9.9%	21.4%	293
Extreme weather	23.8%	4.2%	706
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,966 delay minutes on 28 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 GTF on time in March 2024?

89.6% of 230 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for GTF · methodology · corrections.