Carrier route record

OOMSP→MCI

SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Kansas City

Flights: 351
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 34%
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 MCI lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. 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 is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 351 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on MSP to MCI from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

78 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.71%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.4%

Every carrier on MSP to MCI, 1,028 flights

These figures cover 351 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

SkyWest against every carrier on MSP to MCI

SkyWest flew 351 of the 1,028 flights on MSP to MCI, about 34% of it. Its 77.1% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 78.4%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 79.0% to SkyWest at 77.1%.

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 MCI
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	677	79.0%	83 min	1.33%	B
SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample	351	77.1%	78 min	1.71%	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 351 flights.

5am–8am58 flights78.9%
8am–11am99 flights80.6%
11am–2pm85 flights78.6%
2pm–5pm109 flights71.7%
5pm–8pm—
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 80.6% of the time, against 71.7% for the afternoon window. That is 9 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 109 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

SkyWest on MSP to MCI through the year

Jul–Sep 202546 flights78.3%
Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
Jan–Mar 2026148 flights71.8%
Apr–Jun 2026139 flights84.9%

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 77.1% on time across 351 flights.

SkyWest on MSP to MCI did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 84.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.8%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 117 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 91.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 66.0%. 26 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 71% of the 6,145 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
71%
Extreme weather
18%
National Airspace System
11%

Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,145 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 4,349 of the 6,145 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.71% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 393 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 76.7% on time across 350 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. 351 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 MCI

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 351 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 77.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 345 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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