Carrier route record

OOMSP→AUS

SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Austin

Flights: 323
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 19%
Carriers: 3

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

SkyWest on MSP to AUS earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MSP to AUS record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.31%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

80.0%

Every carrier on MSP to AUS, 1,685 flights

These figures cover 323 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 MSP to AUS

SkyWest flew 323 of the 1,685 flights on MSP to AUS, about 19% of it. Its 85.4% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.4% to Southwest at 78.6%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on MSP to AUS
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	323	85.4%	69 min	0.31%	A+
Delta Air Lines	1,023	78.7%	58 min	0.88%	B+
Southwest Airlinesthin sample	339	78.6%	45 min	0.59%	B+

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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 323 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's MSP to AUS record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 85.4% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

SkyWest on MSP to AUS through the year

Jul–Sep 202530 flights96.7%
Oct–Dec 202568 flights86.8%
Jan–Mar 202672 flights84.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.6%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%

Scale runs 70% to 100%.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 85.4% on time across 323 flights.

SkyWest on MSP to AUS did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.6%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 65 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, Monday is the strongest day at 93.8% on time and Friday the weakest at 76.6%, a spread of 17 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late SkyWest on MSP to AUS runs when it is late

SkyWest on MSP to AUS often beats the schedule: 128 of 322 completed flights, 40%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.

15+ min early128 flights39.8%
Within 15 min147 flights45.7%
15–29 min late18 flights5.6%
30–59 min late13 flights4.0%
1–2 hours late10 flights3.1%
2+ hours late6 flights1.9%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

10 of 36 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at AUS.

The worst days

Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to AUS

The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 9 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of SkyWest on MSP to AUS in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
1 December 2025	9 hours 45 minutes	Carrier
7 March 2026	4 hours 53 minutes	Carrier
26 January 2026	3 hours 11 minutes	Carrier
1 May 2026	2 hours 21 minutes	Carrier
2 August 2026	2 hours 16 minutes	Carrier

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

Carrier accounts for 76% of the 3,237 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
76%
Extreme weather
12%
National Airspace System
11%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,237 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,475 of the 3,237 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.31%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.0% 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.

The 1,042 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 85.3% on time across 323 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. 323 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 MSP to AUS

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 323 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 85.4% 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.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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