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Airport month · April 2024

Minneapolis-St Paul International in April 2024

87.0%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 10,260 domestic departures from Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP). 87.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.3% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so MSP departures were 6.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MSP that month were on time 86.7% of the time (10,257 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 53%, national aviation system 22% and late-arriving aircraft 20%.

Every scheduled departure from MSP in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierMSP, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time87.0%—79.8%80.5%
Arrived on time86.3%—78.1%80.2%
Cancelled0.2%—1.4%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.0 min—14.9 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day342—31319,406
Scheduled departures10,260—114,287582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines5,44453%85.9%-1.7 min0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,09120%86.8%2.3 min0.1%
9E Endeavor Air6687%93.0%-4.2 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines6186%85.3%-0.4 min0.3%
UA United Airlines4134%86.7%-3.6 min0.5%
AA American Airlines3634%82.4%4.8 min0.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines1572%77.7%2.2 min1.3%
MQ Envoy Air1071%86.9%-2.9 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline971%79.4%-0.4 min2.1%
NK Spirit Airlines841%88.1%-0.4 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines831%88.0%2.5 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines771%92.2%-5.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MSP–DENMinneapolis to Denver56386.5%-2.3 min0.2%
MSP–ORDMinneapolis to Chicago51385.2%-1.1 min0.0%
MSP–PHXMinneapolis to Phoenix30984.8%0.2 min0.3%
MSP–ATLMinneapolis to Atlanta29987.3%-1.0 min0.0%
MSP–DFWMinneapolis to Dallas/Fort Worth27177.5%10.1 min1.5%
MSP–LASMinneapolis to Las Vegas24490.6%-5.9 min0.0%
MSP–MDWMinneapolis to Chicago24188.4%-1.0 min0.0%
MSP–MCOMinneapolis to Orlando23383.3%4.8 min0.4%
MSP–SEAMinneapolis to Seattle22593.8%-10.6 min0.0%
MSP–CLTMinneapolis to Charlotte21083.3%-1.5 min0.0%
MSP–LGAMinneapolis to New York19484.0%0.4 min1.0%
MSP–EWRMinneapolis to Newark18879.3%-2.5 min1.6%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier52.9%33.6%44,514
Late-arriving aircraft19.7%41.0%16,554
National Aviation System22.2%20.0%18,667
Extreme weather5.1%5.1%4,328
Security0.2%0.2%152
84,215 delay minutes on 1,370 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left MSP on time in April 2024?

87.0% of 10,260 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MSP · methodology · corrections.