Rapid City Regional in November 2025

84.5%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 November 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 343 domestic departures from Rapid City Regional (RAP). 84.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.3% reached their destination on time; 2.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.1% of flights departed on time and 77.3% arrived on time, so RAP departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, the airport had 444 departures with 84.9% leaving on time: a change of −0.4 points, with flights down 23%.

Flights arriving at RAP that month were on time 83.0% of the time (342 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 43%, late-arriving aircraft 23% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 81.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.3%
Cancelled 2.3%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	RAP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2025
Departed on time	84.5%	84.9%	81.3%	78.1%
Arrived on time	81.3%	80.4%	78.4%	77.3%
Cancelled	2.3%	1.1%	1.3%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.8 min	12.6 min	17.2 min	15.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	15	16	19,018
Scheduled departures	343	444	5,669	570,550

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	193	56%	83.9%	-4.8 min	3.6%
MQ Envoy Air	60	17%	90.0%	-12.0 min	1.7%
UA United Airlines	60	17%	78.3%	8.1 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	30	9%	53.3%	30.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RAP–DEN	Rapid City to Denver	223	83.4%	-1.3 min	2.7%
RAP–DFW	Rapid City to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	90.0%	-12.0 min	1.7%
RAP–ORD	Rapid City to Chicago	30	76.7%	-4.3 min	3.3%
RAP–AZA	Rapid City to Phoenix	21	57.1%	27.1 min	0.0%
RAP–LAS	Rapid City to Las Vegas	9	44.4%	39.0 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), November 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	42.5%	30.2%	1,794
Late-arriving aircraft	23.3%	38.3%	984
National Aviation System	18.2%	26.7%	770
Extreme weather	15.3%	4.6%	645
Security	0.6%	0.1%	27

4,220 delay minutes on 56 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 November 2025?

84.5% of 343 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.1% and 77.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024, 84.9% of 444 departures left on time and 1.1% were cancelled, against 84.5% and 2.3% in November 2025.

Provenance

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