Carrier route record

OOIND→MSP

SkyWest Airlines · Indianapolis to Minneapolis

Flights: 256
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on IND to MSP lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

83.1%

Every carrier on IND to MSP, 1,245 flights

These figures cover 256 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on IND to MSP

SkyWest flew 256 of the 1,245 flights on IND to MSP, about 21% of it. Its 76.3% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 84.8% to SkyWest at 76.3%.

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 IND to MSP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	989	84.8%	88 min	0.71%	B+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	256	76.3%	89 min	1.17%	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 256 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am—
11am–2pm64 flights82.8%
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 82.8% 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%

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 76.3% on time across 256 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on IND to MSP logged 25 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 142 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.3% 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%. 26 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 58% of the 5,321 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.

Carrier
58%
Extreme weather
26%
National Airspace System
16%

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 4.2 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. 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 3,070 of the 5,321 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 76.3% on time across 256 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. 256 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 IND to MSP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 256 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 76.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 253 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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