On-Time Report

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Airport month · August 2025

Dane County Regional-Truax Field in August 2025

81.0%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,138 domestic departures from Dane County Regional-Truax Field (MSN). 81.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.8% reached their destination on time; 1.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so MSN departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 1,128 departures with 81.6% leaving on time: a change of −0.6 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at MSN that month were on time 75.6% of the time (1,138 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 24%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2025Aug 2024MSN, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time81.0%81.6%79.6%76.8%
Arrived on time76.8%77.4%76.5%76.3%
Cancelled1.2%0.8%2.9%1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.5 min16.9 min19.7 min17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day38383920,079
Scheduled departures1,1381,12814,127602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines24522%79.6%12.9 min0.0%
AA American Airlines16514%68.5%33.2 min1.8%
YX Republic Airline15614%79.5%7.4 min2.6%
DL Delta Air Lines15313%88.2%-6.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air15013%68.0%9.2 min3.3%
UA United Airlines14513%73.1%15.1 min0.7%
OH PSA Airlines11010%80.9%-1.6 min0.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines141%71.4%7.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MSN–ORDMadison to Chicago32969.6%13.1 min2.4%
MSN–MSPMadison to Minneapolis12181.0%10.9 min0.0%
MSN–DENMadison to Denver10077.0%9.1 min0.0%
MSN–DFWMadison to Dallas/Fort Worth9658.3%51.5 min2.1%
MSN–DCAMadison to Washington8873.9%14.0 min1.1%
MSN–DTWMadison to Detroit8887.5%5.1 min0.0%
MSN–ATLMadison to Atlanta8792.0%-12.6 min0.0%
MSN–CLTMadison to Charlotte7888.5%-6.1 min0.0%
MSN–LGAMadison to New York4991.8%-6.4 min2.0%
MSN–PHLMadison to Philadelphia3467.6%15.0 min5.9%
MSN–EWRMadison to Newark3180.6%-0.6 min0.0%
MSN–PHXMadison to Phoenix3187.1%16.8 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2025Minutes
Air carrier35.8%33.1%7,565
Late-arriving aircraft29.6%40.5%6,262
National Aviation System24.1%19.2%5,091
Extreme weather10.2%7.0%2,163
Security0.3%0.1%58
21,139 delay minutes on 245 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 August 2025?

81.0% of 1,138 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 81.6% of 1,128 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 81.0% and 1.2% in August 2025.

Provenance

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