OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Minneapolis to Fort Lauderdale

1,487 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSP–FLL arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.2%of scheduled flights

based on 689 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-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.2%
    Flights689

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline51%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)29%
  • Late aircraft15%
  • 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 → FLL

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 — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 1,101 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 40 min · 382 flights
  • Evenings78% on time · p90 35 min · 573 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 90 min · 68 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 87% on time.

  • Tuesdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 283 flights
  • Mondays84% on time · p90 25 min · 298 flights
  • Fridays83% on time · p90 30 min · 311 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 35 min · 285 flights
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 309 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 320 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 45 min · 318 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.