Carrier route record

AAPHL→MSP

American Airlines · Philadelphia to Minneapolis

Flights: 147
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 7%
Carriers: 5

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on PHL to MSP sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 147 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Delta Air Lines, flew 1,217 at 82.0% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on PHL to MSP runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 51 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 144 completed flights

Avg delay

86 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.36%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

78.1%

Every carrier on PHL to MSP, 2,086 flights

These figures cover 147 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on PHL to MSP

American flew 147 of the 2,086 flights on PHL to MSP, about 7% of it. Its 72.2% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 82.0% to Republic at 65.0%. Two of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Delta Air Lines arrives on time 82.0% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 618 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on PHL to MSP
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Delta Air Lines	1,217	82.0%	137 min	2.88%	B
PSA Airlines	618	73.9%	83 min	7.93%	C−
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	147	72.2%	86 min	1.36%	C
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	20	65.0%	45 min	0.00%	C+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	84	65.0%	73 min	4.76%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 7.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

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Departure window

When American 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 147 flights.

5am–8am—
8am–11am4 flights—
11am–2pm106 flights71.8%
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm36 flights72.2%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 65% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 72.2% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.

Across the year

American on PHL to MSP through the year

Jul–Sep 202555 flights70.9%
Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
Apr–Jun 202637 flights77.8%
Jul–Sep 202643 flights63.4%

Scale runs 55% to 85%. 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 72.2% on time across 147 flights.

American on PHL to MSP did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 77.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 63.4%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 49 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.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on PHL to MSP runs when it is late

American on PHL to MSP often beats the schedule: 50 of 144 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 40 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.

15+ min early50 flights34.7%
Within 15 min54 flights37.5%
15–29 min late11 flights7.6%
30–59 min late12 flights8.3%
1–2 hours late8 flights5.6%
2+ hours late9 flights6.3%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 144 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

5 of 39 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.

The worst days

Worst days for American on PHL to MSP

The latest arrival of the period was on 5 September 2025, 4 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across September, July, August, June and May, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of American on PHL to MSP in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
5 September 2025	4 hours 18 minutes	Carrier
9 July 2026	4 hours 18 minutes	Extreme weather
6 August 2026	4 hours 2 minutes	National Airspace System
5 June 2026	3 hours 54 minutes	Carrier
31 May 2026	3 hours 40 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 3,418 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Late-arriving aircraft
46%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
4%

46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3,418 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 3,418 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,168 of the 3,418 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations sit at 1.36% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.68%.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

11.8% 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.

The 981 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 73.1% on time across 148 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. 147 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 American on PHL to MSP

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 147 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 72.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 144 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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