Carrier route record
OOMSP→FAR
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Fargo
- Flights
- 605
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 46%
- 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 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 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 605 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MSP to FAR record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 600 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.66%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
82.7%
Every carrier on MSP to FAR, 1,305 flights
These figures cover 605 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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.
Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on MSP to FAR
SkyWest flew 605 of the 1,305 flights on MSP to FAR, about 46% of it. Its 85.0% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 82.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.0% to Delta at 80.7%.
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) | 605 | 85.0% | 60 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 700 | 80.7% | 78 min | 0.57% | 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 605 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am173 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm225 flights83.0%
- 2pm–5pm158 flights82.9%
- 5pm–8pm49 flights87.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 88.8% on time for the 8am–11am window against 82.9% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 225 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. August was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 88.7% on time and Friday the weakest at 81.1%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 82% of the 5,377 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.
- 82%Carrier
- 13%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,377 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, 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 4,430 of the 5,377 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.66%, 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
5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
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 84.5% on time across 605 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. 605 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. 605 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 85.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 600 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 FAR80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.