Flight number record

DL 1032

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Atlanta

Route: MSP → ATL
Departs: 20:20
Flights: 266
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1032, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1032 lands a B+, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1032's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 54 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.75%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 266 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When DL 1032 flies

DL 1032 flies MSP to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:20, used on 112 of 266 flights, with 20:18 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 20:20112 flights42.1%
Departs 20:1831 flights11.7%

Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.

A 20:20 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and DL 1032 runs 13 points better at 83.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.

Against the route

DL 1032 next to MSP to ATL

Every carrier on MSP to ATL combined arrived on time 82.8% of the time across 3,504 flights, so DL 1032 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,201 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 84.5% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.

DL 1032 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1032thin sample	266	83.0%	52 min	0.75%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–ATL	3,201	84.5%	66 min	0.41%	B+
All carriers on MSP–ATL	3,504	82.8%	67 min	0.51%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1032 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1032 held fairly steady: 84.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.7% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202575 flights84.0%
Oct–Dec 202573 flights83.6%
Jan–Mar 202644 flights85.7%
Apr–Jun 202674 flights79.7%

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1032 ranged from 78.6% on Tuesday to 90.0% on Wednesday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1032 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 42% of the 2,358 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
42%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 991 of the 2,358 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,358 delay minutes reported on DL 1032.

Cancellations are rare at 0.75%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 907 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including HNL to SEA (17) and JFK to MSP (1), but none flew often enough under DL 1032 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to ATL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 266 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking DL 1032

For a booking, read DL 1032 as 83.0% on time with 0.75% cancelled over 266 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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