OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Minneapolis to Palm Springs

1,454 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on MSP–PSP arrive on time 83% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate83%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay25 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 247 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-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights247

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline53%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)38%
  • Late aircraft4%
  • 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 → PSP

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 · 294 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 30 min · 522 flights
  • Evenings75% on time · p90 50 min · 100 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 86% on time.

  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 115 flights · limited
  • Fridays84% on time · p90 25 min · 137 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 113 flights · limited
  • Mondays80% on time · p90 20 min · 141 flights · limited
  • Sundays80% on time · p90 25 min · 138 flights · limited
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 25 min · 134 flights · limited
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 144 flights · limited
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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.