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MSP vs CIU - 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
MSP

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Airport B
CIU

Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric MSP CIU
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 85.4% 84.6%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 79.5 min 119.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 14.6% 15.4%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.79% 0.76%
Total Flights 1,406,487 8,922
Delayed Flights 205,954 1,373
Cancelled Flights 11,052 68
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

MSP - Minneapolis, MN

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

CIU - Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Carrier 68.8%
Weather 25.8%
NAS 3.4%
Late Aircraft 1.7%
Security 0.3%

Top Routes

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%

Top routes from CIU

Route Flights On-Time
CIU → MSP
Minneapolis
1,988 86.6%
MSP → CIU
Sault Ste. Marie
1,958 85.4%
DTW → CIU
Sault Ste. Marie
1,561 84.7%
CIU → DTW
Detroit
1,530 84.5%

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.