Rapid City Regional in January 2024

80.7%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 295 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.3% reached their destination on time; 2.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 6.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 79.3% of the time (295 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 41%, air carrier 32% and late-arriving aircraft 18%.

On time 78.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.3%
Cancelled 2.0%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from RAP in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	80.7%	—	81.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	78.3%	—	78.4%	72.9%
Cancelled	2.0%	—	1.3%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	19.7 min	—	17.2 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	16	18,242
Scheduled departures	295	—	5,669	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	152	52%	78.9%	7.4 min	2.0%
MQ Envoy Air	62	21%	79.0%	11.1 min	3.2%
UA United Airlines	54	18%	74.1%	6.7 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	27	9%	81.5%	-3.2 min	3.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	119	79.8%	-3.5 min	2.5%
RAP–MSP	Rapid City to Minneapolis	87	74.7%	21.3 min	0.0%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	79.0%	11.1 min	3.2%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	18	77.8%	-7.7 min	5.6%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	5.2 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	31.6%	32.6%	1,724
Late-arriving aircraft	17.8%	39.0%	973
National Aviation System	9.2%	17.9%	500
Extreme weather	41.4%	10.3%	2,260
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,457 delay minutes on 57 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 RAP on time in January 2024?

80.7% of 295 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for RAP · methodology · corrections.