Denver to Minneapolis nonstop
Yes: Southwest, Delta, United, Frontier and SkyWest fly direct from Denver (DEN) to Minneapolis (MSP) about 17 times a day, year-round.
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Denver to Minneapolis in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 680 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 55 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in July 2026 (128 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (92 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 123 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 119 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 107 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 99 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 92 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 94 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 101 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 103 flights a week
- May 2026: 120 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 127 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 128 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 119 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 29%, Delta 29%, United 28%, Frontier 12%, SkyWest 2% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 11,215 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $200 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 14,180 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 10,617 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 8,479 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 11,215 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $125), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Minneapolis to Denver nonstop.
Other airports near Denver with nonstops to Minneapolis
Within about 100 miles of Denver International Airport
Also nonstop from Denver (DEN)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 23 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 21 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 21 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 21 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 18 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 17 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 17 times a day
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