OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Detroit to Harrisburg

370 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DTW–MDT arrive on time 78% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate78%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 294 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights294

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline80%
  • Weather13%
  • Air traffic (NAS)8%
  • Late aircraft0%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DTW → MDT

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 78% to 84% on time.

  • Middays84% on time · p90 35 min · 491 flights
  • Overnights82% on time · p90 35 min · 287 flights
  • Afternoons78% on time · p90 50 min · 537 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 84% on time.

  • Wednesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 188 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 186 flights · limited
  • Saturdays84% on time · p90 20 min · 153 flights · limited
  • Mondays81% on time · p90 55 min · 199 flights · limited
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 40 min · 199 flights · limited
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 55 min · 196 flights · limited
  • Thursdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 195 flights · limited
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.