Carrier route record

OOAUS→MSP

SkyWest Airlines · Austin to Minneapolis

Flights: 323
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on AUS to MSP earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's AUS to MSP record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 80 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights

Avg delay

109 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.31%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

78.0%

Every carrier on AUS to MSP, 1,684 flights

These figures cover 323 flights between September 2025 and August 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.

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Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on AUS to MSP

SkyWest flew 323 of the 1,684 flights on AUS to MSP, about 19% of it. Its 85.3% on time is 7 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.3% 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	323	85.3%	109 min	0.31%	A+
Delta Air Lines	1,022	79.6%	89 min	1.27%	B
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	339	66.1%	44 min	0.00%	C+

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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 323 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 85.3% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on AUS to MSP through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
Oct–Dec 202568 flights80.9%
Jan–Mar 202672 flights77.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%

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 85.3% on time across 323 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 81 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, Thursday is the strongest day at 91.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.2%, a spread of 12 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on AUS to MSP runs when it is late

SkyWest on AUS to MSP often beats the schedule: 118 of 320 completed flights, 37%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on AUS to MSP is late it tends to be very late: 24 of its 47 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 15 were two hours or more.

15+ min early118 flights36.9%
Within 15 min155 flights48.4%
15–29 min late14 flights4.4%
30–59 min late9 flights2.8%
1–2 hours late9 flights2.8%
2+ hours late15 flights4.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

12 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on AUS to MSP

The latest arrival of the period was on 4 April 2026, 9 hours 4 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on AUS to MSP in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
4 April 2026	9 hours 4 minutes	Carrier
25 January 2026	7 hours 59 minutes	Extreme weather
1 February 2026	5 hours 4 minutes	Carrier
11 April 2026	4 hours 40 minutes	Carrier
3 March 2026	4 hours 37 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 77% of the 5,111 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
77%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,111 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 77%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,912 of the 5,111 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, below the national 1.89% 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 8.3%, so 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.

The return leg runs 85.4% on time across 323 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. 323 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. 323 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 85.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 320 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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