Rapid City Regional in June 2024

73.2%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 June 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 538 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 73.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.2% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.7% of flights departed on time and 73.9% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 0.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 70.8% of the time (537 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 29% and extreme weather 18%.

On time 74.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.2%
Cancelled 2.4%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Jun 2024	Year earlier	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jun 2024
Departed on time	73.2%	—	81.3%	73.7%
Arrived on time	74.2%	—	78.4%	73.9%
Cancelled	2.4%	—	1.3%	1.3%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.2 min	—	17.2 min	19.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	18	—	16	20,371
Scheduled departures	538	—	5,669	611,132

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	166	31%	68.7%	15.7 min	3.0%
MQ Envoy Air	138	26%	81.2%	2.1 min	1.4%
UA United Airlines	119	22%	80.7%	-1.1 min	4.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	41	8%	61.0%	27.4 min	2.4%
AA American Airlines	30	6%	80.0%	32.9 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	24	4%	83.3%	15.0 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	20	4%	40.0%	88.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	210	77.1%	5.9 min	3.8%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	116	84.5%	-1.8 min	0.9%
RAP–MSP	Rapid City to Minneapolis	89	58.4%	37.8 min	1.1%
RAP–ORD	Rapid City to Chicago	56	73.2%	9.3 min	3.6%
RAP–CLT	Rapid City to Charlotte	26	80.8%	38.7 min	0.0%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	18	72.2%	19.2 min	5.6%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	9	44.4%	47.3 min	0.0%
RAP–SFB	Rapid City to Sanford	9	77.8%	12.8 min	0.0%
RAP–LAX	Rapid City to Los Angeles	5	20.0%	46.0 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), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jun 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.9%	34.4%	3,181
Late-arriving aircraft	41.8%	41.5%	4,609
National Aviation System	10.8%	17.8%	1,188
Extreme weather	18.4%	6.0%	2,024
Security	0.2%	0.2%	22

11,024 delay minutes on 125 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 June 2024?

73.2% of 538 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.7% and 73.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

June 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 June 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.