On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Dane County Regional-Truax Field in April 2025

86.0%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,051 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 86.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.6% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,015 departures with 83.7% leaving on time: a change of +2.3 points, with flights up 4%.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 79.4% of the time (1,052 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 33%, late-arriving aircraft 32% and national aviation system 27%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time86.0%83.7%79.6%80.6%
Arrived on time81.6%83.7%76.5%79.5%
Cancelled0.6%0.9%2.9%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.9 min18.5 min19.7 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day35343919,465
Scheduled departures1,0511,01514,127583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines21320%80.8%4.3 min0.5%
AA American Airlines18017%76.1%8.4 min0.6%
YX Republic Airline16916%81.7%-1.2 min0.6%
DL Delta Air Lines15014%90.7%-9.7 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines14214%83.8%0.2 min1.4%
MQ Envoy Air989%81.6%9.5 min1.0%
UA United Airlines909%77.8%3.7 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines91%66.7%16.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MSN–ORDMadison to Chicago24979.1%5.4 min1.2%
MSN–DTWMadison to Detroit11689.7%-4.2 min0.0%
MSN–MSPMadison to Minneapolis9782.5%4.1 min0.0%
MSN–CLTMadison to Charlotte9087.8%-5.0 min1.1%
MSN–DFWMadison to Dallas/Fort Worth9073.3%10.6 min1.1%
MSN–ATLMadison to Atlanta8687.2%-9.2 min0.0%
MSN–DCAMadison to Washington8276.8%10.3 min0.0%
MSN–DENMadison to Denver6969.6%9.6 min0.0%
MSN–PHXMadison to Phoenix6075.0%12.2 min0.0%
MSN–LGAMadison to New York5692.9%-10.4 min0.0%
MSN–EWRMadison to Newark3086.7%-6.4 min0.0%
MSN–PHLMadison to Philadelphia2688.5%-8.1 min3.8%

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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier33.0%32.7%4,104
Late-arriving aircraft31.9%39.4%3,970
National Aviation System26.5%22.2%3,294
Extreme weather8.6%5.5%1,073
Security0.0%0.2%0
12,441 delay minutes on 183 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 2025?

86.0% of 1,051 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 83.7% of 1,015 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 86.0% and 0.6% in April 2025.

Provenance

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