Carrier route record
OHPHL→MSP
PSA Airlines · Philadelphia to Minneapolis
- Flights
- 522
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 26%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 522 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 480 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
7.85%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
78.3%
Every carrier on PHL to MSP, 2,023 flights
These figures cover 522 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% 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
PSA against every carrier on PHL to MSP
PSA flew 522 of the 2,023 flights on PHL to MSP, about 26% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 82.4% to SkyWest 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 | 1,211 | 82.4% | 130 min | 2.31% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 57 | 77.2% | 71 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| PSA Airlines (this page) | 522 | 74.4% | 84 min | 7.85% | C− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 213 | 65.6% | 89 min | 1.41% | C |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 20 | 65.0% | 45 min | 0.00% | C+ |
Departure window
When PSA runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am232 flights76.8%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm60 flights68.4%
- 5pm–8pm57 flights81.2%
- 8pm–5am173 flights71.0%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 81.2% on time. The full set of windows spans 13 points.
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, Friday is the strongest day at 77.9% on time and Tuesday the weakest at 69.7%. 8 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why PSA runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 10,000 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 10,306 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 38%, 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 3,866 of the 10,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 7.85%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.9% 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.
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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 78.3% on time across 520 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 522 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 7.85% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 480 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 MSP82.4%
- American Airlines on PHL to MSP65.6%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.