Carrier route record
OOMSP→FSD
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Sioux Falls
- Flights
- 1,091
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 75%
- 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 FSD lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,091 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MSP to FSD from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
77.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,078 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.8%
Every carrier on MSP to FSD, 1,456 flights
These figures cover 1,091 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% 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 FSD
SkyWest flew 1,091 of the 1,456 flights on MSP to FSD, most of the route. Its 77.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 78.2% to SkyWest at 77.7%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 365 | 78.2% | 60 min | 0.82% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 1,091 | 77.7% | 75 min | 1.10% | B |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am251 flights89.8%
- 11am–2pm302 flights79.3%
- 2pm–5pm311 flights73.7%
- 5pm–8pm227 flights68.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 89.8% of the time, against 68.0% for the evening window. That is 22 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 311 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSP to FSD through the year
December is the weak month at 50.9% on time, against 96.6% in October. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 120 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 83.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.6%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to FSD runs when it is late
The 240 late arrivals split 66 under half an hour, 72 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 102 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early167 flights15.5%
- Within 15 min671 flights62.2%
- 15–29 min late66 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late72 flights6.7%
- 1–2 hours late58 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late44 flights4.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,078 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
30 of 237 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 33 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to FSD
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 17 hours 11 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 17 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 5 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 5 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 31 July 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 April 2026 | 4 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 76% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 76%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,976 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 76%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 18,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.09%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.5% 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.
At 196 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 83.7% on time across 1,090 flights, 6 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,091 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 FSD
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,091 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 77.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,078 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to FSD, every carrier
- SkyWest on FSD to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to FSD78.2%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.