Rapid City Regional in March 2024

84.9%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 325 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 84.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.4% reached their destination on time; 2.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 84.3% of the time (325 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 34%, air carrier 33% and extreme weather 17%.

On time 83.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.5%
Cancelled 2.5%
Diverted 0.6%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.9%	—	81.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.4%	—	78.4%	78.3%
Cancelled	2.5%	—	1.3%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	17.2 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	16	19,726
Scheduled departures	325	—	5,669	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	146	45%	88.4%	-7.7 min	2.7%
MQ Envoy Air	89	27%	78.7%	11.3 min	2.2%
UA United Airlines	63	19%	88.9%	-10.9 min	1.6%
G4 Allegiant Air	27	8%	59.3%	27.7 min	3.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	120	87.5%	-11.1 min	2.5%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	89	78.7%	11.3 min	2.2%
RAP–MSP	Rapid City to Minneapolis	88	89.8%	-5.4 min	2.3%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	18	66.7%	18.5 min	5.6%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	9	44.4%	45.1 min	0.0%
RAP–ORD	Rapid City to Chicago	1	100.0%	0.0 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	32.6%	32.1%	1,254
Late-arriving aircraft	34.0%	42.1%	1,305
National Aviation System	16.3%	21.4%	626
Extreme weather	17.1%	4.2%	658
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,843 delay minutes on 44 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 March 2024?

84.9% of 325 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.