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Route Reliability

Madison → Detroit

MSN–DTW · 311 miles · Dane County Regional Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
83%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
1,337
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 83% of the time across 1,337 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MSN–DTW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 77% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

MSN–DTW flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Thursdays. On Fridays: 78%.

Trending in the right direction.

MSN–DTW flights arrived on time 86% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 69% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(195 flights)
  • Tue81%(191 flights)
  • Wed84%(188 flights)
  • Thu87%(196 flights)
  • Fri78%(196 flights)
  • Sat86%(157 flights)
  • Sun84%(200 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM92%(360 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM82%(362 flights)
  • 12–3 PM80%(242 flights)
  • 3–6 PM79%(149 flights)
  • 6–9 PM77%(210 flights)
On-time trend by month
91%
May

Jun 90% → May 91% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202590%115
July 202585%118
August 202588%113
September 202592%107
October 202594%116
November 202580%105
December 202567%108
January 202667%97
February 202675%98
March 202680%117
April 202686%115
May 202691%114

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Based on 1,337 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.