OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Pittsburgh to Minneapolis

726 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 366 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time83%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights263
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights103

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline49%
  • Weather21%
  • Air traffic (NAS)7%
  • Late aircraft23%
  • 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 PIT → MSP

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 — 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 965 flights
  • Middays87% on time · p90 25 min · 712 flights
  • Afternoons82% on time · p90 40 min · 585 flights
  • Evenings81% on time · p90 50 min · 778 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 83% to 88% on time.

  • Mondays88% on time · p90 20 min · 458 flights
  • Wednesdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 446 flights
  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 444 flights
  • Saturdays85% on time · p90 30 min · 342 flights
  • Thursdays85% on time · p90 35 min · 450 flights
  • Fridays84% on time · p90 30 min · 453 flights
  • Sundays83% on time · p90 30 min · 447 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.