Saint Paul (MSP) – Raleigh (RDU)
- Distance
- 1,577 km
- 980 mi · 852 nm
- Flight time
- 2 h 28 min / 2 h 46 min
- Average gate to gate: MSP → RDU / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 198 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (117 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 326,153
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −1.0%
- Flights / week
- 51
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 77%
- 424,547 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 2
- DL, SY
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from MSP
- 124°
- Heading from RDU
- 314°
- Halfway point
- 40.61, -85.52
- Great-circle km
- 1,576 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air MSP → RDU
- 2 h 1 min
- In the air RDU → MSP
- 2 h 24 min
- Clocks
- Raleigh is 1 h ahead of Saint Paul
The estimate for a route without real times is 2 h 40 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 36,173 |
| Sep 2025 | 25,331 |
| Oct 2025 | 33,294 |
| Nov 2025 | 26,155 |
| Dec 2025 | 21,840 |
| Jan 2026 | 13,191 |
| Feb 2026 | 14,599 |
| Mar 2026 | 19,267 |
| Apr 2026 | 26,020 |
| May 2026 | 31,111 |
| Jun 2026 | 37,878 |
| Jul 2026 | 41,294 |
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| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 262 |
| Sep 2025 | 224 |
| Oct 2025 | 260 |
| Nov 2025 | 236 |
| Dec 2025 | 179 |
| Jan 2026 | 141 |
| Feb 2026 | 156 |
| Mar 2026 | 177 |
| Apr 2026 | 222 |
| May 2026 | 245 |
| Jun 2026 | 273 |
| Jul 2026 | 283 |
Airlines flying MSP–RDU nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 47 | 90% |
| SYSun Country Airlines | 4.3 | 10% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 748 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 486 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 403 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 269 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 263 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 247 flights
- A200-100 BD-500-1A10 · 181 flights
- Boeing 717-200 · 30 flights
Also carried: 35 tonnes of freight and 0 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 83.1%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 12 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1.2%
- Flights counted
- 2,456
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 52% · aircraft arriving late 31% · air traffic system 16% · weather 1% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $346
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $245
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 88% of passengers · $354
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 1% of passengers · $154
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $228 · Q3 2025 $206 · Q4 2025 $260 · Q1 2026 $346).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 6 (airline ticket sample, US domestic city pairs; each city here has this one airport). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 1,576 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.