Carrier route record
OOIND→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Indianapolis to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 260
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on IND to MSP lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 260 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on IND to MSP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.9%
Every carrier on IND to MSP, 1,252 flights
These figures cover 260 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on IND to MSP
SkyWest flew 260 of the 1,252 flights on IND to MSP, about 21% of it. Its 76.7% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 85.8% to SkyWest at 76.7%.
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 | 992 | 85.8% | 85 min | 0.60% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 260 | 76.7% | 89 min | 1.15% | 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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm68 flights83.8%
- 2pm–5pm103 flights73.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am89 flights75.0%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 83.8% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 73.3%. 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 103 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on IND to MSP through the year
- Oct–Dec 202525 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026142 flights72.9%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights85.4%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 76.7% on time across 260 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on IND to MSP logged 25 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 142 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 89 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 4 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 60.5%, a spread of 26 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on IND to MSP runs when it is late
The 60 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 20 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 27 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights24.5%
- Within 15 min134 flights52.1%
- 15–29 min late13 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late20 flights7.8%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late13 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 257 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 62 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on IND to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 November 2025, 5 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2025 | 5 hours 59 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 March 2026 | 5 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 June 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 January 2026 | 5 hours 12 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 17 March 2026 | 4 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 5,321 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 26%Extreme weather
- 16%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,321 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,070 of the 5,321 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 503 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 76.7% on time across 260 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. 260 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 260 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 76.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 257 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- IND to MSP, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSP to IND, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on IND to MSP85.8%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.