Carrier route record
OOMSP→CMH
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Columbus
- Flights
- 195
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 22%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on MSP to CMH lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 195 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MSP to CMH record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 46 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 193 completed flights
Avg delay
110 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.2%
Every carrier on MSP to CMH, 871 flights
These figures cover 195 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% 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 MSP to CMH
SkyWest flew 195 of the 871 flights on MSP to CMH, about 22% of it. Its 81.9% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.9% to Delta at 79.7%.
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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 195 | 81.9% | 110 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 676 | 79.7% | 70 min | 0.89% | 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 195 flights.
- 5am–8am49 flights83.7%
- 8am–11am28 flights—
- 11am–2pm4 flights—
- 2pm–5pm78 flights79.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am36 flights74.3%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 83.7% of the time, against 74.3% for the overnight window. That is 9 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 78 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSP to CMH through the year
- Jul–Sep 202538 flights89.5%
- Oct–Dec 202510 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026112 flights72.7%
- Apr–Jun 202635 flights97.1%
Scale runs 65% to 100%. 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 81.9% on time across 195 flights.
SkyWest on MSP to CMH did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 97.1% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.7%, a swing of 24 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to CMH runs when it is late
SkyWest on MSP to CMH often beats the schedule: 75 of 193 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When SkyWest on MSP to CMH is late it tends to be very late: 18 of its 35 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 9 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early75 flights38.9%
- Within 15 min83 flights43.0%
- 15–29 min late7 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights5.2%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late9 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 193 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 5 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to CMH
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 March 2026, 17 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in February 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 March 2026 | 17 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 February 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 March 2026 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 3 hours 29 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 February 2026 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 76% of the 3,845 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,845 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,913 of the 3,845 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.51%, 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
9.3% 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.
The 626 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 82.5% on time across 195 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. 195 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. 195 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 81.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 193 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to CMH, every carrier
- SkyWest on CMH to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to CMH79.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.