Carrier route record
OOFSD→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Sioux Falls to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 1,090
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 75%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on FSD to MSP lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,090 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's FSD to MSP record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 64 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,076 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.19%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.3%
Every carrier on FSD to MSP, 1,455 flights
These figures cover 1,090 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on FSD to MSP
SkyWest flew 1,090 of the 1,455 flights on FSD to MSP, most of the route. Its 83.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 85.9% to SkyWest at 83.7%.
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 | 365 | 85.9% | 134 min | 0.82% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,090 | 83.7% | 96 min | 1.19% | B |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am169 flights91.0%
- 8am–11am74 flights87.7%
- 11am–2pm483 flights84.2%
- 2pm–5pm361 flights79.3%
- 5pm–8pm3 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.0% of the time, against 79.3% for the afternoon window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 483 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on FSD to MSP through the year
December is the weak month at 47.3% on time, against 92.0% 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. July was the busiest month here, with 120 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 78.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on FSD to MSP runs when it is late
SkyWest on FSD to MSP often beats the schedule: 417 of 1,076 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 175 late arrivals split 45 under half an hour, 51 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 79 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early417 flights38.8%
- Within 15 min484 flights45.0%
- 15–29 min late45 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late51 flights4.7%
- 1–2 hours late43 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late36 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,076 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
27 of 180 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 22 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on FSD to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 July 2026, 13 hours 37 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | 13 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 June 2026 | 11 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 9 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 May 2026 | 8 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 7 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 17,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 20%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 16,818 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 12,000 of the 17,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.19% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.09%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 196 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.7% on time across 1,091 flights, 6 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,090 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 FSD to MSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,090 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 83.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,076 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- FSD to MSP, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSP to FSD, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on FSD to MSP85.9%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.