OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Minneapolis to Bismarck

386 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSP–BIS arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 1,179 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights877
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights302

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline71%
  • Weather12%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft9%
  • 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 MSP → BIS

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 77% to 89% on time.

  • Mornings89% on time · p90 10 min · 466 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 25 min · 950 flights
  • Afternoons84% on time · p90 25 min · 893 flights
  • Evenings82% on time · p90 40 min · 982 flights
  • Overnights77% on time · p90 50 min · 1,012 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 80% to 85% on time.

  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 30 min · 628 flights
  • Mondays84% on time · p90 30 min · 635 flights
  • Saturdays84% on time · p90 30 min · 528 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 629 flights
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 45 min · 630 flights
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 35 min · 621 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 35 min · 632 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.