On-time performance

Minneapolis St Paul International (MSP) on-time performance, September 2026

12,929 scheduled airline departures from Minneapolis in September 2026, 80.3% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.

1 September to 30 September 2026 · KMSP · Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0)

12,929
departures
80.3%
on time (within 15 min)
8.2%
45+ min late
10.2 min
average departure delay

On time, day by day

Share of departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Thursday 3 September at 58.2%. Best: Wednesday 2 September at 89.5%.

60%70%80%90%100%2026-09-01: 418 departures, 86.1% on time2026-09-02: 429 departures, 89.5% on time2026-09-03: 459 departures, 58.2% on time2026-09-04: 483 departures, 68.9% on time2026-09-05: 394 departures, 84.5% on time2026-09-06: 372 departures, 82.0% on time2026-09-07: 436 departures, 84.2% on time2026-09-08: 403 departures, 84.4% on time2026-09-09: 417 departures, 83.7% on time2026-09-10: 421 departures, 85.5% on time2026-09-11: 437 departures, 86.7% on time2026-09-12: 385 departures, 86.2% on time2026-09-13: 422 departures, 85.1% on time2026-09-14: 443 departures, 75.6% on time2026-09-15: 432 departures, 75.7% on time2026-09-16: 441 departures, 83.7% on time2026-09-17: 458 departures, 78.4% on time2026-09-18: 470 departures, 73.0% on time2026-09-19: 394 departures, 75.4% on time2026-09-20: 433 departures, 81.1% on time2026-09-21: 446 departures, 75.6% on time2026-09-22: 429 departures, 79.5% on time2026-09-23: 444 departures, 84.0% on time2026-09-24: 464 departures, 83.0% on time2026-09-25: 483 departures, 78.3% on time2026-09-26: 399 departures, 83.5% on time2026-09-27: 433 departures, 73.4% on time2026-09-28: 446 departures, 77.6% on time2026-09-29: 413 departures, 85.7% on time2026-09-30: 425 departures, 86.8% on time2026-09-01: 86.1% on time (418 departures)012026-09-02: 89.5% on time (429 departures)2026-09-03: 58.2% on time (459 departures)2026-09-04: 68.9% on time (483 departures)042026-09-05: 84.5% on time (394 departures)2026-09-06: 82.0% on time (372 departures)2026-09-07: 84.2% on time (436 departures)072026-09-08: 84.4% on time (403 departures)2026-09-09: 83.7% on time (417 departures)2026-09-10: 85.5% on time (421 departures)102026-09-11: 86.7% on time (437 departures)2026-09-12: 86.2% on time (385 departures)2026-09-13: 85.1% on time (422 departures)132026-09-14: 75.6% on time (443 departures)2026-09-15: 75.7% on time (432 departures)2026-09-16: 83.7% on time (441 departures)162026-09-17: 78.4% on time (458 departures)2026-09-18: 73.0% on time (470 departures)2026-09-19: 75.4% on time (394 departures)192026-09-20: 81.1% on time (433 departures)2026-09-21: 75.6% on time (446 departures)2026-09-22: 79.5% on time (429 departures)222026-09-23: 84.0% on time (444 departures)2026-09-24: 83.0% on time (464 departures)2026-09-25: 78.3% on time (483 departures)252026-09-26: 83.5% on time (399 departures)2026-09-27: 73.4% on time (433 departures)2026-09-28: 77.6% on time (446 departures)282026-09-29: 85.7% on time (413 departures)2026-09-30: 86.8% on time (425 departures)30

Airlines at MSP, ranked by on-time share

Scheduled airlines with at least 30 departures from MSP in the month. Regional partners (SkyWest, Republic, Envoy and the like) appear under their own names; fractional and charter operators are in the totals but not listed.

AirlineDeparturesOn time45+ min lateAvg delay (min)
Federal Express FDX80100.0%0.0%-13.8
Mesa Airlines ASH3494.1%0.0%-1.6
Key Lime Air LYM7893.6%1.3%-3.0
Aer Lingus EIN3093.3%6.7%0.8
United Parcel Service UPS10688.7%4.7%-1.9
Alaska Airlines ASA11988.2%0.8%0.3
Sun Country Airlines SCX52685.6%6.3%4.0
WestJet WJA6185.2%3.3%4.5
Jazz (Air Canada Express) JZA8384.3%4.8%8.6
Icelandair ICE3183.9%3.2%16.5
SkyWest SKW2,44182.4%7.0%10.0
Delta Air Lines DAL6,02581.7%7.5%8.3
United Airlines UAL56579.6%12.4%16.6
American Airlines AAL41878.2%11.7%15.0
Southwest Airlines SWA48977.7%7.6%10.9
Frontier Airlines FFT16376.7%9.2%15.3
Endeavor Air EDV1,13075.8%9.8%17.5
PSA Airlines JIA10574.3%10.5%14.0
Envoy Air ENY8672.1%22.1%24.7
Bemidji Airlines BMJ16619.3%34.9%37.0

Destinations with the longest delays

Routes from MSP with at least 20 departures, by average departure delay.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
KRPD KRPD210.0%50.3
SBN South Bend3180.6%32.4
BOS Boston19553.3%27.0
AMS Amsterdam9570.5%26.4
ORD Chicago58870.6%25.2
RST Rochester8880.7%24.7
CIU Sault Ste Marie2673.1%21.0
DSM Des Moines11275.9%20.7
ICN Seoul3066.7%20.7
KEF Keflavik5874.1%18.9

Busiest destinations

The ten routes with the most departures from MSP this month.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
ORD Chicago58870.6%25.2
DEN Denver52677.8%11.7
ATL Atlanta30877.9%11.5
DFW Dallas-Fort Worth29781.8%11.7
SEA Seattle26382.9%6.0
LAS Las Vegas23183.1%5.9
MDW Chicago23172.3%16.8
DCA Washington22279.3%8.8
PHX Phoenix22185.1%6.7
CLT Charlotte20383.3%8.4

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Airline pages for September 2026

Federal ExpressMesa AirlinesKey Lime AirAer LingusUnited Parcel ServiceAlaska AirlinesSun Country AirlinesWestJetJazz (Air Canada Express)IcelandairSkyWestDelta Air LinesUnited AirlinesAmerican AirlinesSouthwest AirlinesFrontier AirlinesEndeavor AirPSA AirlinesEnvoy Air

All US airports and airlines, September 2026

How we measure

On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time at MSP (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.

Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).

Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).