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GTF vs MSP - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
GTF

Great Falls, MT

Great Falls, Montana

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Airport B
MSP

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric GTF MSP
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 88.3% 85.4%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 88.5 min 79.5 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 11.7% 14.6%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.60% 0.79%
Total Flights 29,395 1,406,487
Delayed Flights 3,436 205,954
Cancelled Flights 176 11,052
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

GTF - Great Falls, MT

Carrier 48.2%
Late Aircraft 20.8%
Weather 17.1%
NAS 13.9%
Security 0.0%

MSP - Minneapolis, MN

Carrier 50.7%
NAS 20.3%
Late Aircraft 18.3%
Weather 10.6%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from GTF

Route Flights On-Time
GTF → SLC
Salt Lake City
5,902 91.9%
SLC → GTF
Great Falls
5,872 92.6%
GTF → DEN
Denver
4,495 83.1%
DEN → GTF
Great Falls
4,494 82%
GTF → SEA
Seattle
1,214 85.7%
SEA → GTF
Great Falls
1,214 87.8%

Top routes from MSP

Route Flights On-Time
DEN → MSP
Minneapolis
32,213 79.9%
MSP → DEN
Denver
32,212 82.4%
MSP → ORD
Chicago
31,635 80.7%
ORD → MSP
Minneapolis
31,628 79.4%
ATL → MSP
Minneapolis
21,418 84.7%
MSP → ATL
Atlanta
21,403 85.6%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.