Dane County Regional-Truax Field in January 2024

72.0%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 836 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 72.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 65.8% reached their destination on time; 4.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 2.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 69.9% of the time (838 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 51%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 65.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 29.2%
Cancelled 4.9%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from MSN in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	72.0%	—	79.6%	74.0%
Arrived on time	65.8%	—	76.5%	72.9%
Cancelled	4.9%	—	2.9%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	29.0 min	—	19.7 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	28	—	39	18,242
Scheduled departures	836	—	14,127	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	165	20%	61.8%	29.8 min	9.1%
AA American Airlines	161	19%	60.9%	26.3 min	1.2%
DL Delta Air Lines	152	18%	75.0%	14.3 min	4.6%
UA United Airlines	119	14%	57.1%	28.7 min	4.2%
YX Republic Airline	71	8%	70.4%	13.3 min	5.6%
MQ Envoy Air	56	7%	55.4%	30.3 min	8.9%
9E Endeavor Air	40	5%	90.0%	-7.9 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	38	5%	71.1%	12.4 min	5.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	34	4%	70.6%	23.9 min	2.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MSN–ORD	Madison to Chicago	162	53.1%	25.9 min	11.1%
MSN–MSP	Madison to Minneapolis	111	76.6%	12.9 min	2.7%
MSN–DTW	Madison to Detroit	88	75.0%	32.8 min	4.5%
MSN–ATL	Madison to Atlanta	87	75.9%	12.1 min	3.4%
MSN–DFW	Madison to Dallas/Fort Worth	82	63.4%	18.5 min	2.4%
MSN–DEN	Madison to Denver	76	65.8%	30.5 min	2.6%
MSN–CLT	Madison to Charlotte	62	59.7%	23.6 min	0.0%
MSN–DCA	Madison to Washington	53	67.9%	10.9 min	5.7%
MSN–PHX	Madison to Phoenix	31	64.5%	37.4 min	0.0%
MSN–LGA	Madison to New York	30	66.7%	28.6 min	6.7%
MSN–EWR	Madison to Newark	23	47.8%	16.6 min	8.7%
MSN–MCO	Madison to Orlando	20	65.0%	15.4 min	5.0%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	50.8%	32.6%	12,367
Late-arriving aircraft	25.9%	39.0%	6,308
National Aviation System	15.2%	17.9%	3,713
Extreme weather	8.0%	10.3%	1,951
Security	0.1%	0.2%	21

24,360 delay minutes on 244 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 January 2024?

72.0% of 836 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 65.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.