Route profile
CHS→MSP
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Charleston to Minneapolis, 1,087 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 46% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 809 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
CHS → MSP arrives on time 79.3% of the time; the return trip, MSP → CHS, arrives on time 84.6% of the time, a 5.3-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
CHS → MSP spends 24.3 minutes on the ground on a 1,087-mile trip: 17.4 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at CHS and 6.8 minutes from touchdown to gate at MSP.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where CHS to MSP differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
CHS to MSP is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 3 PM: 78.6% arrive on time, 8.5 points ahead of the 70.1% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 5.9 points.
CHS to MSP against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 3 PM departures | 78.6% | routes of similar length | 70.1% | +8.5 pts | 429 here, 169,047 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 1,087 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
CHS to MSP in context
This route against CHS and MSP as a whole, against similar routes from CHS, and against its own first year, July 2023 – July 2026.
Arriving at MSP, CHS to MSP is on time 79.3% of the time, 3.1 points worse than the airport’s other arrivals at MSP (82.4%, from 364,980 flights).
Airport comparisons take this route’s flights out of the airport total. Length means within 15% of this route’s distance, with at least 3 other routes from the same origin. On-time gaps are stated at 2 points and 2 standard errors, cancellation gaps at 0.5 points and 2 standard errors, and every group needs 750 flights. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
45 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 809 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at MSP after arriving from CHS.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 34% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 20% | High risk |
| 60 min | 14% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 7.2% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 4.3% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 0.99% of the time and diverts 0.12% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 800 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 45 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 809 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Why CHS → MSP runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for CHS → MSP. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 782 | 79.3% | 1.02% | -7 min | 7.1% |
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 80.4% against 75.4% in the 12 months before — improving by 5.0 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 809 CHS → MSP flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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