Flights Minneapolis → Fort Wayne
MSP → FWA
Route overview
The flight route from Minneapolis to Fort Wayne has an on-time performance rate of 85%, with a mean delay of 17.8 minutes per flight. Over the course of a year, this route sees approximately 89 flights, serving the relatively smaller but still busy destination airport in Fort Wayne, which handles about 727,896 passengers annually.
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 Minneapolis (MSP) → Fort Wayne (FWA) route is operated by Delta Air Lines. Across 120 flights monitored in recent months, 86% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 27 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.33%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.4/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Fort Wayne the average ATFM delay is 5.2 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Minneapolis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Fort Wayne: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Minneapolis (MSP) to Fort Wayne (FWA) heads south-east for about 784 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 24m.
Departures from Minneapolis on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 99% of MSP-FWA flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Minneapolis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Fort Wayne it is 5.2 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 120 tracked MSP-FWA flights, 86% left on time with an average delay of 27 min and a 3.3% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines (DL) | 80% | 8 min | 1.8% |
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Frequently asked questions about MSP-FWA
On the Minneapolis (MSP) -> Fort Wayne (FWA) route, on-time performance is 86% with an average delay of 27 minutes, based on 120 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Minneapolis-Fort Wayne is 3.33% across 120 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.
