Rapid City Regional in March 2025

84.3%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 345 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 84.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 4.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 325 departures with 84.9% leaving on time: a change of −0.6 points, with flights up 6%.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 81.2% of the time (345 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 47%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 84.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.2%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from RAP in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	84.3%	84.9%	81.3%	79.9%
Arrived on time	84.9%	83.4%	78.4%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	2.5%	1.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.8 min	12.6 min	17.2 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	11	16	20,029
Scheduled departures	345	325	5,669	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	209	61%	85.2%	-12.1 min	0.5%
MQ Envoy Air	62	18%	83.9%	-0.6 min	3.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	42	12%	88.1%	-2.4 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	9%	80.6%	0.7 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	1	0%	100.0%	-35.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	240	84.6%	-10.5 min	0.4%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	83.9%	-0.6 min	3.2%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	24	87.5%	3.9 min	0.0%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	-0.1 min	0.0%
RAP–SFB	Rapid City to Sanford	9	88.9%	-21.6 min	0.0%
RAP–ORD	Rapid City to Chicago	1	100.0%	-35.0 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	46.7%	33.0%	1,559
Late-arriving aircraft	26.3%	39.2%	879
National Aviation System	16.2%	21.9%	540
Extreme weather	10.9%	5.9%	363
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

3,341 delay minutes on 49 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 2025?

84.3% of 345 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 84.9% of 325 departures left on time and 2.5% were cancelled, against 84.3% and 0.9% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.