Carrier route record
OOFAR→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 605
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FAR 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 about an hour. That rests on 605 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's FAR to MSP record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 600 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.83%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
86.0%
Every carrier on FAR to MSP, 1,305 flights
These figures cover 605 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 FAR to MSP
SkyWest flew 605 of the 1,305 flights on FAR to MSP, about 46% of it. Its 84.5% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 86.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.2% to SkyWest at 84.5%.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 700 | 87.2% | 100 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 605 | 84.5% | 63 min | 0.83% | B+ |
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 605 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am36 flights82.4%
- 11am–2pm344 flights85.1%
- 2pm–5pm120 flights82.4%
- 5pm–8pm105 flights85.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The time of day barely matters here. The 5pm–8pm window tops the set at 85.6% and 2pm–5pm sits at 82.4%, 3 points apart across 605 flights. Pick the departure that suits the trip: whatever is going wrong here is not accumulating over the course of the day. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 344 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on FAR to MSP through the year
January is the weak month at 68.8% on time, against 96.2% in October. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 79.3%. 11 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 5,851 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.
- 70%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,851 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 4,090 of the 5,851 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.83%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 223 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5pm–8pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 85.0% on time across 605 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. 605 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 FAR to MSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 605 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 84.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 600 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FAR to MSP, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSP to FAR, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on FAR to MSP87.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.