OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Los Angeles to Minneapolis

1,535 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LAX–MSP arrive on time 85% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate85%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay25 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 2,215 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time85%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.5%
    Flights2,215

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline54%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft31%
  • 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 LAX → MSP

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 2,277 flights
  • Early mornings86% on time · p90 20 min · 394 flights
  • Evenings84% on time · p90 30 min · 492 flights
  • Afternoons83% on time · p90 25 min · 940 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 30 min · 1,972 flights
  • Overnights82% on time · p90 25 min · 892 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 81% to 89% on time.

  • Wednesdays89% on time · p90 15 min · 960 flights
  • Tuesdays88% on time · p90 15 min · 989 flights
  • Saturdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 958 flights
  • Thursdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 995 flights
  • Mondays85% on time · p90 25 min · 1,039 flights
  • Fridays83% on time · p90 25 min · 1,039 flights
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 30 min · 987 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.