OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Detroit to Pellston

243 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DTW–PLN arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled5.1%of scheduled flights

based on 671 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel5.1%
    Flights671

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline66%
  • Weather25%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • 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 → PLN

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 76% to 84% on time.

  • Overnights84% on time · p90 30 min · 335 flights
  • Mornings82% on time · p90 35 min · 399 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 55 min · 550 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 50 min · 206 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 55 min · 699 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 83% on time.

  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 35 min · 335 flights
  • Wednesdays81% on time · p90 35 min · 257 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 40 min · 343 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 340 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 50 min · 331 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 80 min · 344 flights
  • Tuesdays73% on time · p90 60 min · 239 flights
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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.