Carrier route record

OOAUS→MSP

SkyWest Airlines · Austin to Minneapolis

Flights: 321
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.

SkyWest on AUS to MSP earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 321 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's AUS to MSP record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 70 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 319 completed flights

Avg delay

111 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.31%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

76.6%

Every carrier on AUS to MSP, 1,678 flights

These figures cover 321 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on AUS to MSP

SkyWest flew 321 of the 1,678 flights on AUS to MSP, about 19% of it. Its 84.6% on time is 8 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 76.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.6% to Southwest at 66.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

On-time performance by carrier on AUS to MSP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	321	84.6%	111 min	0.31%	B+
Delta Air Lines	1,021	77.5%	92 min	1.27%	B
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	336	66.1%	45 min	0.00%	C+

Departure window

When SkyWest runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 321 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's AUS to MSP record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.6% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on AUS to MSP through the year

Jul–Sep 202590 flights87.6%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights80.9%
Jan–Mar 202672 flights77.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.6% on time across 321 flights.

SkyWest on AUS to MSP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 90.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 80 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 87.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 80.9%. 6 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 5,425 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
70%
Extreme weather
24%
National Airspace System
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 24% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,425 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,816 of the 5,425 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,042 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 85.3% on time across 321 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 321 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking SkyWest on AUS to MSP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 321 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 84.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 319 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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