Carrier route record
OOMSP→IND
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Indianapolis
- Flights
- 260
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 21%
- 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 IND lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 260 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MSP to IND from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.15%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.1%
Every carrier on MSP to IND, 1,250 flights
These figures cover 260 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 IND
SkyWest flew 260 of the 1,250 flights on MSP to IND, about 21% of it. Its 76.7% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 82.3% to SkyWest at 76.7%.
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 | 990 | 82.3% | 54 min | 0.51% | B+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 260 | 76.7% | 62 min | 1.15% | 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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am68 flights91.2%
- 11am–2pm103 flights77.2%
- 2pm–5pm89 flights64.8%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.2% of the time, against 64.8% for the afternoon window. That is 26 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 103 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSP to IND through the year
- Oct–Dec 202525 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026142 flights72.9%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights83.1%
- Jul–Sep 20264 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 76.7% on time across 260 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on MSP to IND logged 25 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 142 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 89 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 4 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.7% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.2%, a spread of 28 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to IND runs when it is late
SkyWest on MSP to IND often beats the schedule: 74 of 257 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 60 late arrivals split 21 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early74 flights28.8%
- Within 15 min123 flights47.9%
- 15–29 min late21 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late19 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 257 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 57 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to IND
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 January 2026, 5 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2026 | 5 hours 23 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 January 2026 | 4 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 May 2026 | 3 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 June 2026 | 2 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 March 2026 | 2 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 61% of the 3,718 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Carrier
- 26%Extreme weather
- 13%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 26% 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 4.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,718 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 61%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,260 of the 3,718 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.15% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
The 503 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 76.7% on time across 260 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. 260 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 IND
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 260 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 76.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 257 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to IND, every carrier
- SkyWest on IND to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to IND82.3%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
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.