PHL to MSP flight delays
Philadelphia, PA (PHL) Minneapolis, MN (MSP) · 981 miles
200 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
84.46%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
90 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
15 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 90 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from PHL overall run 10.3 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion PHL has, this route is largely escaping it.
Only Delta Air Lines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Delta Air Lines arrived on time most often on PHL to MSP.
Every airline on PHL to MSP
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 114 | 85.71% | 1.75% | 80 min | B |
| PSA Airlines | 60 | 83.93% | 6.67% | 85 min | — |
| American Airlines | 26 | 80% | 0% | 133 min | — |
The return leg
MSP to PHL Minneapolis back to Philadelphia 84.02% on time BOther routes from Philadelphia
Common questions
Are flights from Philadelphia to Minneapolis usually delayed?
84.46% of flights on the PHL to MSP route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Philadelphia to Minneapolis?
Only Delta Air Lines appears in the published record on this route, with 114 flights and 85.71% arriving on time.
How often are PHL to MSP flights cancelled?
3% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 30 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When PHL to MSP flights are late, how late are they?
About 90 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on PHL to MSP during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →