Dane County Regional-Truax Field in March 2024

84.9%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 953 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 84.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 79.1% of the time (953 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 57%, late-arriving aircraft 32% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 83.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.3%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from MSN 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	MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.9%	—	79.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.9%	—	76.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	2.9%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.7 min	—	19.7 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	32	—	39	19,726
Scheduled departures	953	—	14,127	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	186	20%	73.7%	19.3 min	0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	186	20%	83.9%	10.4 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	157	16%	92.4%	-7.2 min	0.6%
UA United Airlines	130	14%	90.0%	-2.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	101	11%	91.1%	-11.8 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	61	6%	83.6%	12.4 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	58	6%	74.1%	3.0 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	41	4%	87.8%	2.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	33	3%	69.7%	9.5 min	6.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MSN–ORD	Madison to Chicago	200	86.0%	-8.4 min	0.0%
MSN–MSP	Madison to Minneapolis	119	84.9%	19.0 min	1.7%
MSN–DTW	Madison to Detroit	110	88.2%	1.9 min	0.0%
MSN–DFW	Madison to Dallas/Fort Worth	93	72.0%	32.0 min	1.1%
MSN–ATL	Madison to Atlanta	88	92.0%	-10.2 min	0.0%
MSN–DCA	Madison to Washington	88	85.2%	8.2 min	0.0%
MSN–DEN	Madison to Denver	71	85.9%	2.8 min	0.0%
MSN–CLT	Madison to Charlotte	62	71.0%	16.3 min	0.0%
MSN–EWR	Madison to Newark	31	93.5%	-7.5 min	0.0%
MSN–LGA	Madison to New York	31	93.5%	-11.8 min	0.0%
MSN–PHX	Madison to Phoenix	31	83.9%	-11.8 min	0.0%
MSN–MCO	Madison to Orlando	24	62.5%	19.2 min	8.3%

By scheduled departure hour

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	56.7%	32.1%	8,558
Late-arriving aircraft	31.6%	42.1%	4,770
National Aviation System	10.2%	21.4%	1,539
Extreme weather	1.5%	4.2%	219
Security	0.1%	0.2%	15

15,101 delay minutes on 146 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 March 2024?

84.9% of 953 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% 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 MSN · methodology · corrections.