Dane County Regional-Truax Field in November 2023

88.6%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 887 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 88.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.8% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 2.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 84.8% of the time (889 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 58%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 87.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.2%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from MSN in November 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	88.6%	—	79.6%	86.0%
Arrived on time	87.8%	—	76.5%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.9%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.6 min	—	19.7 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	30	—	39	18,793
Scheduled departures	887	—	14,127	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	189	21%	93.7%	-11.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	178	20%	86.5%	1.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	159	18%	88.1%	-0.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	136	15%	84.6%	-0.7 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	83	9%	89.2%	-10.6 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	63	7%	84.1%	9.5 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	48	5%	83.3%	0.5 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	25	3%	84.0%	-8.4 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	6	1%	83.3%	-11.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MSN–ORD	Madison to Chicago	145	82.8%	3.2 min	0.0%
MSN–DTW	Madison to Detroit	112	92.0%	-8.7 min	0.0%
MSN–MSP	Madison to Minneapolis	111	88.3%	-5.5 min	0.0%
MSN–DFW	Madison to Dallas/Fort Worth	88	88.6%	-7.7 min	0.0%
MSN–DCA	Madison to Washington	83	88.0%	3.3 min	0.0%
MSN–ATL	Madison to Atlanta	82	96.3%	-17.6 min	0.0%
MSN–DEN	Madison to Denver	80	83.8%	-2.2 min	0.0%
MSN–CLT	Madison to Charlotte	59	81.4%	9.6 min	0.0%
MSN–LGA	Madison to New York	55	94.5%	-10.7 min	0.0%
MSN–PHX	Madison to Phoenix	31	90.3%	11.6 min	0.0%
MSN–EWR	Madison to Newark	30	76.7%	11.0 min	0.0%
MSN–MCO	Madison to Orlando	4	100.0%	-31.5 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.2%	42.5%	2,323
Late-arriving aircraft	57.5%	37.3%	4,731
National Aviation System	9.9%	16.2%	817
Extreme weather	3.6%	3.7%	295
Security	0.7%	0.3%	61

8,227 delay minutes on 108 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 MSN on time in November 2023?

88.6% of 887 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 2022 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 November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MSN · methodology · corrections.