On-Time Report

Airports › Madison (MSN) › January 2025

Airport month · January 2025

Dane County Regional-Truax Field in January 2025

82.0%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 961 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.0% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 836 departures with 72.0% leaving on time: a change of +10.0 points, with flights up 15%.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 76.5% of the time (966 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 22%.

Every scheduled departure from MSN in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time82.0%72.0%79.6%79.3%
Arrived on time80.0%65.8%76.5%78.6%
Cancelled2.4%4.9%2.9%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)16.7 min29.0 min19.7 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day32283917,992
Scheduled departures96183614,127539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines28830%74.7%13.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines16317%82.2%2.7 min3.7%
YX Republic Airline14916%79.9%-0.6 min2.0%
DL Delta Air Lines12913%89.9%-3.6 min3.1%
OH PSA Airlines10411%73.1%-0.1 min7.7%
UA United Airlines9910%82.8%-2.1 min2.0%
MQ Envoy Air273%92.6%-9.3 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines20%100.0%-25.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MSN–ORDMadison to Chicago23474.4%14.6 min0.0%
MSN–DTWMadison to Detroit11483.3%2.0 min0.0%
MSN–MSPMadison to Minneapolis11281.3%2.2 min0.0%
MSN–DFWMadison to Dallas/Fort Worth9380.6%9.9 min5.4%
MSN–CLTMadison to Charlotte8680.2%-4.0 min4.7%
MSN–ATLMadison to Atlanta7988.6%2.0 min5.1%
MSN–DCAMadison to Washington7574.7%-6.2 min9.3%
MSN–DENMadison to Denver6479.7%-6.5 min3.1%
MSN–PHXMadison to Phoenix3984.6%-3.3 min0.0%
MSN–LGAMadison to New York3187.1%-11.6 min0.0%
MSN–EWRMadison to Newark3080.0%-1.8 min3.3%
MSN–MIAMadison to Miami4100.0%-14.5 min0.0%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier41.4%36.2%6,321
Late-arriving aircraft31.2%34.7%4,762
National Aviation System21.5%19.9%3,289
Extreme weather5.9%9.1%899
Security0.0%0.2%0
15,271 delay minutes on 167 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
← December 2024February 2025 →

Questions and answers

How many flights left MSN on time in January 2025?

82.0% of 961 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 72.0% of 836 departures left on time and 4.9% were cancelled, against 82.0% and 2.4% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.