Transatlantic route · frequency, carriers and airport records
CPH→MSP
Copenhagen to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 146 both ways
- Carriers
- 1
- Distance
- 4,268 mi
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
No public record scores Copenhagen to Minneapolis-St Paul International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 146 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, roughly a weekly round trip, flown by Delta. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 82.2% of all departures from Copenhagen leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 80.0% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 79.2% of MSP's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.
On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Copenhagen ranks 6th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.
Key figures
Flights
146
Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)
Carriers
1
Delta Air Lines
CPH departures on time
82.2%
All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)
MSP domestic on time
79.2%
US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures
Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 1.0 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Copenhagen so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from MSP ran a little over an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 1.44% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.
Carrier by carrier
Who flies CPH to MSP
Delta Air Lines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on CPH to MSP, with 146 flights and an average of 239 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.
| Airline | Flights | Share | Per month | Passengers / flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 146 | 100% | 12 | 239 |
DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.
Across the year
How often CPH to MSP flies through the year
The DOT's international report puts 27 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in April 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.
Flights per month, both directions
- July 202527
- August 202527
- September 202523
- October 202521
- November 20250
- December 20250
- January 20260
- February 20260
- March 20260
- April 20260
- May 202623
- June 202625
The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 146 between CPH and MSP from July 2025 to June 2026, roughly a weekly round trip, carrying 34,919 passengers. That makes it the 12th busiest of 12 US routes from Copenhagen and the 8th busiest of 8 European routes into MSP.
The departure airport
How Copenhagen is running
EUROCONTROL's figures for Copenhagen as a whole, every airline and every destination: 82.2% of departures and 80.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 96.9% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 85.2% for departures, 3 points better than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 1.0 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.6 over the last week.
| Window | Departures on time | Arrivals on time | Schedules operated | ATFM delay / arrival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday (21 October 2026) | 89.4% | 87.7% | 96.6% | 0.3 min |
| Last 7 days | 85.2% | 80.8% | 97.4% | 0.6 min |
| Year to date | 82.2% | 80.0% | 96.9% | 1.0 min |
Every US route from Copenhagen, and its full punctuality record
The arrival airport
Landing at Minneapolis-St Paul International
Minneapolis-St Paul International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 79.2% of its 114,673 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 1.44% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at MSP reaches a flight from CPH just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.
Domestic on time
79.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)
Avg delay
71 min
Delayed domestic flights only
Cancelled
1.44%
Domestic departures
114,673
Last twelve months
Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month
Your rights
EC 261/2004 on CPH to MSP
Every flight that departs Copenhagen falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Minneapolis-St Paul International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from MSP is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 4,268 miles, 6,867 km, which puts it in the top distance band.
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What to do with this
Booking CPH to MSP
There is no grade to give CPH to MSP without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: roughly a weekly round trip, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 82% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 79% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at MSP; immigration comes before the connecting flight.
Common questions
CPH to MSP questions
How often are CPH to MSP flights delayed?
No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (82.2% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and MSP's domestic record in the DOT data (79.2% on time).
Which airlines fly CPH to MSP?
Delta Air Lines. Delta Air Lines accounted for 100% of the 146 flights the DOT counted on the pair.
Can I claim compensation for a delayed CPH to MSP flight?
Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Copenhagen are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from MSP is covered only on an EU carrier.
How many flights a day are there from CPH to MSP?
Roughly a weekly round trip: the DOT counted 146 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 27 in July 2025 and falling to 0 in April 2026.
Related
Where to go next
- Copenhagen (CPH): every US route
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
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- KEF to MSP, from Reykjavík808 flights
- Every Europe-to-US route and airport
Denmark publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.
Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.