OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

MSPDEN

Minneapolis to Denver

680 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSP–DEN arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 5,750 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-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights1,823
  • United Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights1,519
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights554
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.2%
    Flights1,731
  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time90%
    Medianon time
    p905 min
    Cancel4.1%
    Flights123

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)43%
  • Late aircraft27%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→MSP airportMinneapolis→DEN airportDenver→Delta Air Lines on this routecarrier detail→Delta Air Linesairline profile→

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.