Carrier route record

OOMSP→CMH

SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Columbus

Flights: 197
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 23%
Carriers: 2

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

SkyWest on MSP to CMH lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 197 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MSP to CMH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

81.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 195 completed flights

Avg delay

108 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.51%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

77.6%

Every carrier on MSP to CMH, 854 flights

These figures cover 197 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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 MSP to CMH

SkyWest flew 197 of the 854 flights on MSP to CMH, about 23% of it. Its 81.5% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.5% to Delta at 76.5%.

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 CMH
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	197	81.5%	108 min	0.51%	B+
Delta Air Lines	657	76.5%	69 min	0.91%	B+

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 197 flights.

5am–8am50 flights84.0%
8am–11am29 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 84.0% of the time, against 74.3% for the overnight window. That is 10 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 202540 flights87.5%
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 81.5% on time across 197 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 66 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.

Delay causes

Why SkyWest runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 76% of the 3,900 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
76%
Extreme weather
16%
National Airspace System
8%

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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,900 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, 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 2,968 of the 3,900 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations are rare at 0.51%, below the national 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.2% 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.

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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The return leg runs 82.1% on time across 197 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. 197 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 CMH

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 197 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 81.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 195 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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