On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2024

Dane County Regional-Truax Field in April 2024

83.7%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,015 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.7% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 75.8% of the time (1,016 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 57%, late-arriving aircraft 23% and extreme weather 13%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierMSN, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time83.7%—79.6%80.5%
Arrived on time83.7%—76.5%80.2%
Cancelled0.9%—2.9%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.5 min—19.7 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day34—3919,406
Scheduled departures1,015—14,127582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines29229%81.2%14.2 min1.0%
AA American Airlines17918%74.3%34.1 min0.6%
DL Delta Air Lines14614%95.9%-7.8 min0.0%
UA United Airlines12012%90.0%-0.2 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline10410%89.4%-5.2 min1.0%
MQ Envoy Air858%80.0%2.1 min1.2%
OH PSA Airlines525%78.8%14.3 min3.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines222%68.2%8.8 min4.5%
9E Endeavor Air151%100.0%-8.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MSN–ORDMadison to Chicago28082.1%12.1 min1.1%
MSN–DTWMadison to Detroit11685.3%1.6 min0.9%
MSN–MSPMadison to Minneapolis11687.1%-1.7 min0.9%
MSN–DFWMadison to Dallas/Fort Worth8970.8%34.6 min1.1%
MSN–ATLMadison to Atlanta8696.5%-7.4 min0.0%
MSN–DCAMadison to Washington8279.3%12.5 min2.4%
MSN–DENMadison to Denver7885.9%2.0 min0.0%
MSN–CLTMadison to Charlotte6075.0%48.3 min0.0%
MSN–LGAMadison to New York4495.5%-12.1 min0.0%
MSN–EWRMadison to Newark3093.3%0.1 min0.0%
MSN–PHXMadison to Phoenix3083.3%4.2 min0.0%
MSN–MCOMadison to Orlando450.0%5.0 min25.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier56.7%33.6%10,473
Late-arriving aircraft22.9%41.0%4,238
National Aviation System7.4%20.0%1,366
Extreme weather13.0%5.1%2,396
Security0.0%0.2%0
18,473 delay minutes on 154 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left MSN on time in April 2024?

83.7% of 1,015 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.