Flights Great Falls → Minneapolis
GTF → MSP
Route overview
The flight route connects Great Falls with Minneapolis, operating on an Embraer 175 aircraft. The destination airport in Minneapolis serves a substantial number of passengers annually, totaling 31,241,822.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Great Falls (GTF) → Minneapolis (MSP) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 31 flights monitored in recent months, 87% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 23 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 7.6/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Minneapolis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Great Falls the average ATFM delay is 1.4 minutes.
Heading to Minneapolis: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Great Falls (GTF) to Minneapolis (MSP) heads east for about 1,423 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 12m.
Departures from Great Falls on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 100% of GTF-MSP flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Great Falls the average ATFM delay is 1.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Minneapolis it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 31 tracked GTF-MSP flights, 87% left on time with an average delay of 23 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
Route facts
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
Airlines operating GTF-MSP
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Frequently asked questions about GTF-MSP
On the Great Falls (GTF) -> Minneapolis (MSP) route, on-time performance is 87% with an average delay of 23 minutes, based on 31 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Great Falls-Minneapolis is 0.00% across 31 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Delta Air Lines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
