Carrier route record
OOMSP→MCI
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Kansas City
- Flights
- 329
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- 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 MCI lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 329 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, 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.
Key figures
On time
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.82%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.3%
Every carrier on MSP to MCI, 1,088 flights
These figures cover 329 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 MCI
SkyWest flew 329 of the 1,088 flights on MSP to MCI, about 30% of it. Its 76.2% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.3%. 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 76.2%.
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 | 759 | 80.7% | 79 min | 1.45% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 329 | 76.2% | 82 min | 1.82% | B |
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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 329 flights.
- 5am–8am53 flights80.8%
- 8am–11am82 flights76.5%
- 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 early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 80.8% 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 202517 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202518 flights—
- Jan–Mar 2026148 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 2026139 flights84.9%
- Jul–Sep 20267 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 76.2% on time across 329 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on MSP to MCI logged 17 flights in Jul–Sep 2025, 18 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 148 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 139 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 7 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 76.2% annual figure is the one to use.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 93.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 63.8%, a spread of 29 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to MCI runs when it is late
The 77 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 29 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early49 flights15.2%
- Within 15 min197 flights61.0%
- 15–29 min late13 flights4.0%
- 30–59 min late29 flights9.0%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late18 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 71 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 5 made it up before arrival. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to MCI
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 February 2026, 5 hours 33 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February 2026 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 4 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 December 2025 | 4 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 3 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 3 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 74% of the 6,325 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 74%Carrier
- 16%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% 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 2.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 6,325 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 74%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,680 of the 6,325 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.82% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.8% 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 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 77.0% on time across 328 flights, within about 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. 329 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. 329 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 76.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 323 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to MCI, every carrier
- SkyWest on MCI to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to MCI80.7%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Kansas City International (MCI) 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.