Carrier route record

OOMCI→MSP

SkyWest Airlines · Kansas City to Minneapolis

Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 34%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on MCI 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 a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

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

On time

76.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

82.3%

Every carrier on MCI to MSP, 1,028 flights

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 MCI to MSP

SkyWest flew 350 of the 1,028 flights on MCI to MSP, about 34% of it. Its 76.7% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 82.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 85.2% 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.

On-time performance by carrier on MCI to MSP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	678	85.2%	93 min	1.33%	A
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	350	76.7%	78 min	1.71%	B

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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am58 flights82.5%
11am–2pm99 flights81.6%
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 82.5% of the time, against 67.1% for the evening window. That is 15 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 202546 flights65.2%
Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026148 flights73.9%
Apr–Jun 2026138 flights84.8%

Scale runs 55% 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 350 flights.

SkyWest on MCI to MSP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.2%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 117 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 70.0%. 15 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 64% of the 6,208 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
64%
Extreme weather
25%
National Airspace System
10%
Security
1%

Extreme weather accounts for 25% 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 4.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,208 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, 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 4,003 of the 6,208 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% 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. 10.2% 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.

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 77.1% on time across 351 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. 350 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 MCI to MSP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 350 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. 344 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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