Carrier route record
OOMCI→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Kansas City to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 328
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MCI to MSP lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly 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 328 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MCI 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
77.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
83.5%
Every carrier on MCI to MSP, 1,088 flights
These figures cover 328 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 MCI to MSP
SkyWest flew 328 of the 1,088 flights on MCI to MSP, about 30% of it. Its 77.0% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 83.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 86.2% to SkyWest at 77.0%.
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 | 760 | 86.2% | 105 min | 1.45% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 328 | 77.0% | 83 min | 1.83% | 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 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am53 flights84.6%
- 11am–2pm82 flights82.7%
- 2pm–5pm118 flights75.9%
- 5pm–8pm75 flights67.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 84.6% of the time, against 67.1% for the evening window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 118 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MCI to MSP through the year
- Jul–Sep 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026148 flights73.9%
- Apr–Jun 2026138 flights84.8%
- Jul–Sep 20267 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 77.0% on time across 328 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on MCI to MSP logged 17 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 18 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 148 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 138 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 7 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 77.0% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 86.4% on time and Friday the weakest at 70.2%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MCI to MSP runs when it is late
SkyWest on MCI to MSP often beats the schedule: 104 of 322 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 74 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights32.3%
- Within 15 min144 flights44.7%
- 15–29 min late21 flights6.5%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.6%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights6.2%
- 2+ hours late15 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 79 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 MCI to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 April 2026, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 21 April 2026 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 February 2026 | 5 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 4 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 30 December 2025 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 67% of the 6,102 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Carrier
- 23%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 23% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,102 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 67%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,094 of the 6,102 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.83% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.9% 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.
At 393 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 76.2% on time across 329 flights, within about 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. 328 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. 328 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 77.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 322 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MCI to MSP, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSP to MCI, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MCI to MSP86.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Kansas City International (MCI) 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.