Flights Minneapolis → Palm Springs
MSP → PSP
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) → Palm Springs (PSP) route is operated by Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines. Across 209 flights monitored in recent months, 93% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 1 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.91%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 10.7/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Palm Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.9 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Minneapolis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Palm Springs: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Minneapolis (MSP) to Palm Springs (PSP) heads south-west for about 2,336 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 20m.
Departures from Minneapolis on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 49% of MSP-PSP flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Minneapolis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Palm Springs it is 3.9 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 209 tracked MSP-PSP flights, 93% left on time with an average delay of 1 min and a 1.9% 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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On the Minneapolis (MSP) -> Palm Springs (PSP) route, on-time performance is 93% with an average delay of 1 minutes, based on 209 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Minneapolis-Palm Springs is 1.91% across 209 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines.
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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.
