MSP Minneapolis

How deep the MSP board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MSP. This reads the same 179 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 106of the 179 destinations are flown by one airline
• 56destinations run less than once a day
• 45destinations have four or more departures a day
• 69.8%of the destinations name Delta Air Lines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MSP

43 airlines appear on the MSP board and they do not hold it evenly. Delta Air Lines is on 125 of the 179 destinations, 69.8 per cent of them, and on 59 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 435.4 of the 475.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Sun Country Airlines on 49 destinations. 26 of the 43 airlines at MSP appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 125 of the 179 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MSP sector is usually another Delta Air Lines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for MSP, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the MSP board is daily

Of the 179 destinations, 123 are flown at least once a day and 56 are not, 33 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MSP board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MSP to Treasure Cay (TCB) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 69.7 of the 475.9 departures a day, 14.6 per cent of the whole board. The other 174 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at MSP usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Albany ALB	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,572	plan this
Alexandria AXN	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	202	plan this
Augusta AGS	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,603	plan this
Birmingham BHM	the United States	Sun Country Airlines	1	1,375	plan this
Brookings BKX	the United States	Flexjet	1	292	plan this
Cincinnati LUK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	970	plan this
Cody COD	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,248	plan this
Dallas ADS	the United States	AirShare LLC	1	1,361	plan this
Dallas DAL	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,374	plan this
Dayton DAY	the United States	Delta Air Lines	1	923	plan this

The ten destinations out of MSP where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 42 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MSP

The desk holds the return direction for 64 of the 179 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into MSP runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Edmonton (YEG) at 1.1 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (DCA) files 8.4 a day back into MSP against 3.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MSP

MSP keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at MSP, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at MSP

4 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from MSP that lands inside it leaves around 07:27, on a modelled block of 8h 33m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from MSP that lands inside it leaves around 08:20, on a modelled block of 8h 40m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from MSP that lands inside it leaves around 09:14, on a modelled block of 8h 16m. Those three departure times out of MSP are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where MSP turns up on the rest of this site

MSP carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the MSP transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 31 airport pair pages that start or end at MSP, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Minneapolis to Denver (DEN), Minneapolis to Seattle (SEA) and Minneapolis to Chicago (MDW).

Nine courier postings name MSP as the airport a courier here flies from: Minneapolis, Rochester and Woodbury.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MSP already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 179 destinations above.