The sector is held by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Sun Country Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MSP Minneapolis to PHL Philadelphia
Minneapolis St Paul, the United States, to Philadelphia International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,574 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 31m
- Door to door
- 9h 16m
What MSP to PHL looks like
The MSP to PHL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Minneapolis MSP to Philadelphia PHL is a medium haul sector of 1,574 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,574 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 31m.
Minneapolis MSP is a major hub in the network held here, 179 scheduled destinations and 475.9 departures a day. Philadelphia PHL has 171 destinations and 527.5 departures a day.
Philadelphia is one hour ahead of Minneapolis all year.
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 MSP to PHL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSP to PHL | 7 | 49 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines |
| PHL to MSP | 6.86 | 48 | American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 7 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 97 departures a week on MSP to PHL, 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 2h 31m block time on MSP to PHL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MSP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MSP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MSP to PHL in the air, estimated | 151 min | 7h 01m |
| Formalities at PHL | 90 min | 8h 31m |
| Delivery run in Philadelphia | 45 min | 9h 16m |
| Door to door | 556 min | 9h 16m |
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 MSP to PHL is 9h 16m.
A courier who leaves Minneapolis at 09:00 local is on the ground in Philadelphia at about 12:31 local and at the door by 14:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Philadelphia, the last useful departure from Minneapolis is around 12:14 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. 51 of them join MSP to PHL.
| Connecting at | MSP to hub, flights a day | Hub to PHL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee MKE | 5.43 | 3.29 | 1,586 | 4h 07m |
| Pittsburgh PIT | 4.14 | 6.86 | 1,597 | 4h 22m |
| Cleveland CLE | 4.14 | 5.86 | 1,582 | 4h 23m |
| Detroit DTW | 6.29 | 9.71 | 1,576 | 4h 24m |
| Toronto YYZ | 5 | 8.14 | 1,647 | 4h 27m |
| Washington DC DCA | 3.43 | 2.14 | 1,687 | 4h 27m |
With 7 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.
51 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 3.3 times a day.
Through MKE the routing covers 1,586 km against the 1,574 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 07m 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 36m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Pittsburgh PIT at 4h 22m and Cleveland CLE at 4h 23m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Philadelphia, Newark EWR is 129 km away by great circle and carries 201 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Minneapolis to Philadelphia 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 MSP to PHL 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.
More pairs through MSP and PHL: Seattle to Minneapolis, Minneapolis to Boston, Minneapolis to Detroit, Phoenix to Minneapolis, Houston to Minneapolis, San Diego to Minneapolis, Charlotte to Minneapolis, Vancouver to Minneapolis.