The sector is held by Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and NetJets Aviation.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MDW Chicago to MSP Minneapolis
Midway International, the United States, to Minneapolis St Paul, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 560 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 19m
- Door to door
- 8h 04m
What MDW to MSP looks like
The MDW to MSP sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Chicago MDW to Minneapolis MSP is a short sector of 560 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 560 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 19m.
Chicago MDW is a major hub in the network held here, 208 scheduled destinations and 305.1 departures a day. Minneapolis MSP has 179 destinations and 475.9 departures a day.
Chicago and Minneapolis keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MDW to MSP from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDW to MSP | 9.14 | 64 | Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines |
| MSP to MDW | 9.14 | 64 | Delta Air Lines, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 128 departures a week on MDW to MSP, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 19m block time on MDW to MSP. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MDW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MDW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MDW to MSP in the air, estimated | 79 min | 5h 49m |
| Formalities at MSP | 90 min | 7h 19m |
| Delivery run in Minneapolis | 45 min | 8h 04m |
| Door to door | 484 min | 8h 04m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for MDW to MSP is 8h 04m.
A courier who leaves Chicago at 09:00 local is on the ground in Minneapolis at about 10:19 local and at the door by 12:34 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Minneapolis, the last useful departure from Chicago is around 14:26 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 47 of them join MDW to MSP.
| Connecting at | MDW to hub, flights a day | Hub to MSP, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee MKE | 3.43 | 5.86 | 608 | 2h 53m |
| Chicago ORD | 0.57 | 22.14 | 562 | 3h 19m |
| Indianapolis IND | 2.71 | 3.71 | 1,069 | 3h 40m |
| Detroit DTW | 6.14 | 6 | 1,215 | 3h 52m |
| Kansas City MCI | 6.71 | 5.71 | 1,283 | 3h 53m |
| St Louis STL | 6.14 | 7.29 | 1,126 | 3h 55m |
With 9.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
47 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Milwaukee MKE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through MKE the routing covers 608 km against the 560 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chicago ORD at 3h 19m and Indianapolis IND at 3h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Chicago, Chicago ORD is 25 km away by great circle and carries 295 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Chicago to Minneapolis yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for MDW to MSP in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
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