Rapid City Regional in April 2024

86.2%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 312 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 86.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.1% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 5.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 84.3% of the time (312 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 37%, extreme weather 32% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 80.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.6%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	86.2%	—	81.3%	80.5%
Arrived on time	80.1%	—	78.4%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.3%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.1 min	—	17.2 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	16	19,406
Scheduled departures	312	—	5,669	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	137	44%	86.1%	2.3 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	90	29%	72.2%	2.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	63	20%	77.8%	7.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	22	7%	81.8%	-7.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	111	73.0%	9.2 min	0.0%
RAP–MSP	Rapid City to Minneapolis	86	88.4%	-2.9 min	0.0%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	63	77.8%	7.5 min	0.0%
RAP–ORD	Rapid City to Chicago	30	86.7%	-9.0 min	0.0%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	14	85.7%	-13.7 min	0.0%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	8	75.0%	2.6 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	37.3%	33.6%	1,403
Late-arriving aircraft	11.6%	41.0%	438
National Aviation System	19.5%	20.0%	735
Extreme weather	31.5%	5.1%	1,187
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,763 delay minutes on 61 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 April 2024?

86.2% of 312 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.