Carrier route record
OOFAR→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Fargo to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 519
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FAR to MSP earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 519 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's FAR to MSP record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 515 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
87.2%
Every carrier on FAR to MSP, 1,218 flights
These figures cover 519 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 FAR to MSP
SkyWest flew 519 of the 1,218 flights on FAR to MSP, about 43% of it. Its 87.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 87.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 87.4% to SkyWest at 87.0%.
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 | 699 | 87.4% | 111 min | 0.43% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 519 | 87.0% | 68 min | 0.77% | A+ |
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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 519 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am36 flights82.4%
- 11am–2pm355 flights87.6%
- 2pm–5pm61 flights86.7%
- 5pm–8pm67 flights86.6%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 87.6% on time, ahead of 8am–11am at 82.4%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 355 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. April was the busiest month here, with 71 flights.
Across the week, Sunday is the strongest day at 92.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 81.6%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on FAR to MSP runs when it is late
SkyWest on FAR to MSP often beats the schedule: 254 of 515 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 67 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early254 flights49.3%
- Within 15 min194 flights37.7%
- 15–29 min late21 flights4.1%
- 30–59 min late21 flights4.1%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late13 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 515 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
17 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on FAR to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 June 2026, 4 hours 30 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 June 2026 | 4 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 January 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 3 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 January 2026 | 3 hours 35 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 September 2025 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 4,582 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 22%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 22% 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 3.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,582 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,163 of the 4,582 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.77%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 86.8% on time across 519 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. 519 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. 519 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 87.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 515 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 MSP87.4%
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.