Carrier route record
OOMSP→MSN
SkyWest Airlines · Minneapolis to Madison
- Flights
- 777
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 68%
- 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 MSN lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 777 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, SkyWest's MSP to MSN record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 40 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 770 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.90%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.9%
Every carrier on MSP to MSN, 1,136 flights
These figures cover 777 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 MSN
SkyWest flew 777 of the 1,136 flights on MSP to MSN, most of the route. Its 81.3% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 83.1% to SkyWest at 81.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
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 Linesthin sample | 359 | 83.1% | 65 min | 1.11% | B |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page) | 777 | 81.3% | 72 min | 0.90% | 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 777 flights.
- 5am–8am139 flights85.6%
- 8am–11am237 flights83.8%
- 11am–2pm242 flights78.2%
- 2pm–5pm159 flights78.3%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 78.2% on time against 85.6% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 242 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
SkyWest on MSP to MSN through the year
December is the weak month at 47.4% on time, against 92.0% 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 92 flights.
Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 87.1% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 77.9%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on MSP to MSN runs when it is late
The 144 late arrivals split 39 under half an hour, 46 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 59 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early190 flights24.7%
- Within 15 min436 flights56.6%
- 15–29 min late39 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late46 flights6.0%
- 1–2 hours late33 flights4.3%
- 2+ hours late26 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 770 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 137 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 25 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on MSP to MSN
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 6 hours 48 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 6 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 1 December 2025 | 5 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 3 December 2025 | 5 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 4 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 71% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 71%Carrier
- 20%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 20% 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 3.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,414 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,391 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 0.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
7.7% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 228 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 80.3% on time across 777 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. 777 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 MSN
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 777 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 81.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 770 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to MSN, every carrier
- SkyWest on MSN to MSP, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on MSP to MSN83.1%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
- The best day of the week to fly, and why it is the second lever
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.