Carrier route record
OOMSP→FAR
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Fargo
- Flights
- 519
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 43%
- 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 FAR 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 519 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MSP to FAR record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 95 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 514 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.77%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
82.9%
Every carrier on MSP to FAR, 1,218 flights
These figures cover 519 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 FAR
SkyWest flew 519 of the 1,218 flights on MSP to FAR, about 43% of it. Its 86.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.8% to Delta at 80.0%.
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) | 519 | 86.8% | 64 min | 0.77% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 699 | 80.0% | 79 min | 0.57% | 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 519 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am154 flights90.1%
- 11am–2pm256 flights83.9%
- 2pm–5pm90 flights87.8%
- 5pm–8pm19 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. 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 83.9% on time against 90.1% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 256 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSP to FAR through the year
January is the weak month at 70.8% on time, against 94.4% in June. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 71 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Friday the weakest at 81.6%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to FAR runs when it is late
SkyWest on MSP to FAR often beats the schedule: 236 of 514 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 68 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 25 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early236 flights45.9%
- Within 15 min210 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late25 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late18 flights3.5%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late12 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 514 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
23 of 81 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. Only 10 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to FAR
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 January 2026, 4 hours 2 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 January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 January 2026 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 January 2026 | 3 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 2 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 February 2026 | 2 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 January 2026 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 88% of the 4,320 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 88%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 88%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,787 of the 4,320 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,320 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations are rare at 0.77%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 223 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 87.0% on time across 519 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. 519 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 FAR
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 519 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 86.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 514 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to FAR, every carrier
- SkyWest on FAR to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to FAR80.0%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- How to read this site: grades, sample sizes, and honest caveats
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.