Rapid City Regional Airport is a public use airport, nine miles southeast of Rapid City, in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.
It is the closest commercial airport to Mount Rushmore (located approximately away by driving distance) and is the main gateway airport to the Black Hills and Western South Dakota.
Facilities
The airport covers at an elevation of . It has two runways: 14/32 is concrete and 5/23 is asphalt. A near-parallel grass runway (13/31, ) exists approximately 2,400 feet from Runway 14/32; this runway, however, belongs to Dan's Airport , a small private airport.
thumb|A FedEx ATR-42-600 at the cargo ramp at Rapid City.
2021 Total Commercial Passengers: 690,740
Terminal
The current terminal building opened in 1988; a $20.5 million expansion and renovation designed by TSP Architecture was completed in 2012. It includes 12,000 square feet of new floor space, the addition of three jet bridges and one boarding gate, an expanded security area with room for up to three lanes and body scanners, a new rental car wing, additional seating in the concourse, larger restrooms before and after security, modernized phone and data systems, new flight information boards, improved food service and shopping areas in the concourse, a rooftop patio, and energy-efficient windows and building exterior repair.
Airlines and destinations
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Passenger
Cargo
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Historical airline service
Since 2020, several destinations have been cut from the airport's schedule and have not returned. Most of these routes were seasonal flights offered during the summer, with Allegiant Air offering flights from select cities for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August 2021. The terminated destinations included Appleton, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Knoxville, Nashville, Peoria, Pittsburgh, and Punta Gorda (operated by Allegiant), New York-LaGuardia and Phoenix-Sky Harbor (operated by American Eagle), Atlanta and Detroit (operated by Delta Air Lines), Salt Lake City (operated by Delta Connection), and Houston, Newark, Los Angeles, and San Francisco (operated by United Express). United returned seasonal service from San Francisco for the 2024 Sturgis Rally, using the Embraer E175. Delta announced the return of the Atlanta route in December 2024, which began on May 24, 2025.
Statistics
Carrier shares
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| SkyWest
| 266,000
| 30.11%
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| United
| 202,000
| 22.80%
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| Envoy
| 165,000
| 18.68%
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| Endeavor
| 124,000
| 14.08%
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| Allegiant
| 107,000
| 12.07%
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| Other
| 19,960
| 2.26%
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Top destinations
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See also
- List of airports in South Dakota