Carrier route record
OOMSN→MSP
SkyWest Airlines · Madison to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 777
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MSN to MSP lands a B, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 777 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MSN 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
80.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 768 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.0%
Every carrier on MSN to MSP, 1,136 flights
These figures cover 777 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 MSN to MSP
SkyWest flew 777 of the 1,136 flights on MSN to MSP, most of the route. Its 80.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 84.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 91.8% to SkyWest at 80.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 Linesthin sample | 359 | 91.8% | 107 min | 1.11% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 777 | 80.3% | 81 min | 1.03% | 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–8am—
- 8am–11am202 flights86.0%
- 11am–2pm209 flights74.4%
- 2pm–5pm213 flights82.9%
- 5pm–8pm153 flights77.5%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 74.4% on time against 86.0% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 213 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSN to MSP through the year
December is the weak month at 55.3% on time, against 88.5% 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 92 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 75.2%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSN to MSP runs when it is late
SkyWest on MSN to MSP often beats the schedule: 324 of 768 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 151 late arrivals split 49 under half an hour, 45 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 57 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early324 flights42.2%
- Within 15 min293 flights38.2%
- 15–29 min late49 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late45 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late32 flights4.2%
- 2+ hours late25 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 768 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 138 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. 27 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSN to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 18 hours 40 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 18 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 March 2026 | 6 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 6 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 December 2025 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 74% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Carrier
- 19%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 12,205 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,011 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.03% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.13%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.4% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 228 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 81.3% on time across 777 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. 777 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 MSN to MSP
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 777 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 80.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 768 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSN to MSP, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSP to MSN, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSN to MSP91.8%
- 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.