OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Minneapolis to Cleveland

622 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.2%of scheduled flights

based on 603 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time91%
    Medianon time
    p9010 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights110
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.2%
    Flights493

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline60%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft19%
  • 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 → CLE

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 66% to 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 987 flights
  • Middays85% on time · p90 25 min · 909 flights
  • Afternoons79% on time · p90 40 min · 569 flights
  • Overnights75% on time · p90 55 min · 774 flights
  • Evenings66% on time · p90 80 min · 199 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 79% to 84% on time.

  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 502 flights
  • Fridays83% on time · p90 40 min · 515 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 513 flights
  • Mondays80% on time · p90 45 min · 519 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 45 min · 497 flights
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 40 min · 487 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 405 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.