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MSP vs SJC - 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
SJC

San Jose, CA

San Jose, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric MSP SJC
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 85.4% 84.2%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 79.5 min 59.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 14.6% 15.8%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.79% 0.99%
Total Flights 1,406,487 546,547
Delayed Flights 205,954 86,586
Cancelled Flights 11,052 5,418
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ 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%

SJC - San Jose, CA

Late Aircraft 46.2%
Carrier 34.8%
NAS 16.4%
Weather 2.4%
Security 0.2%

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 SJC

Route Flights On-Time
SJC → SAN
San Diego
31,755 82.2%
SAN → SJC
San Jose
31,496 82%
LAX → SJC
San Jose
30,318 87.3%
SJC → LAX
Los Angeles
30,152 88.4%
SEA → SJC
San Jose
26,361 85%
SJC → SEA
Seattle
26,343 86.4%

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.