Carrier route record
OHPHL→MSP
PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 618
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 30%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with PSA Airlines.
PSA on PHL to MSP sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 618 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate PSA on PHL to MSP from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
73.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 568 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.1%
Every carrier on PHL to MSP, 2,086 flights
These figures cover 618 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
PSA against every carrier on PHL to MSP
PSA flew 618 of the 2,086 flights on PHL to MSP, about 30% of it. Its 73.9% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 82.0% to Republic at 65.0%. Three 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 Lines | 1,217 | 82.0% | 137 min | 2.88% | B |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 618 | 73.9% | 83 min | 7.93% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin 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− |
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Departure window
When PSA 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 618 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am289 flights77.5%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm64 flights68.9%
- 5pm–8pm87 flights72.6%
- 8pm–5am178 flights70.4%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 77.5% of the time, against 68.9% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 289 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
PSA on PHL to MSP through the year
May is the best month on the calendar at 85.5% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. April was the busiest month here, with 84 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 67.5%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late PSA on PHL to MSP runs when it is late
PSA on PHL to MSP often beats the schedule: 200 of 568 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 148 late arrivals split 43 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 66 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early200 flights35.2%
- Within 15 min220 flights38.7%
- 15–29 min late43 flights7.6%
- 30–59 min late39 flights6.9%
- 1–2 hours late43 flights7.6%
- 2+ hours late23 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 568 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 134 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 35 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at MSP.
The worst days
Worst days for PSA on PHL to MSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 April 2026, 11 hours 26 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2026 | 11 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 April 2026 | 11 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 February 2026 | 10 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 November 2025 | 5 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 12,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 14%Extreme weather
- 12%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 14% 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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,205 reported delay minutes.
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations run at 7.93%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twelve cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
11.6% 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 is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 77.1% on time across 617 flights, 3 points above this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 618 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 PSA on PHL to MSP
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 7.93% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 568 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PHL to MSP, every carrier
- PSA on MSP to PHL, the return leg
- Delta Air Lines on PHL to MSP82.0%
- American Airlines on PHL to MSP72.2%
- PSA Airlines network-wide record
- Philadelphia International (PHL) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.