Carrier route record

OOMSP→IND

SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Indianapolis

Flights: 256
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 21%
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 IND lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 256 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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.

On time

76.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights

Avg delay

62 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.17%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

79.8%

Every carrier on MSP to IND, 1,243 flights

These figures cover 256 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on MSP to IND

SkyWest flew 256 of the 1,243 flights on MSP to IND, about 21% of it. Its 76.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 80.7% to SkyWest at 76.3%.

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 IND
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	987	80.7%	62 min	0.51%	B+
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	256	76.3%	62 min	1.17%	B

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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am64 flights90.6%
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 90.6% 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%

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 76.3% on time across 256 flights.

Split by quarter, SkyWest on MSP to IND logged 25 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 142 flights in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89 flights in Apr–Jun 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 76.3% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 84.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.2%. 21 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 61% of the 3,718 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
61%
Extreme weather
26%
National Airspace System
13%

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 4.2 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. 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 2,260 of the 3,718 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.17% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

7.9% 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.

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. 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 76.3% on time across 256 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. 256 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. 256 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 76.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 253 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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