Flight number record
DL 1036
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Atlanta
- Route
- MSP → ATL
- Departs
- 15:50
- Flights
- 347
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1036, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1036 lands a B+, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 50 minutes on average. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1036's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 347 completed flights
Avg delay
50 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 347 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1036 flies
DL 1036 flies MSP to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:50, used on 39 of 347 flights, with 14:56 (36 flights) next.
- Departs 15:5039 flights11.2%
- Departs 14:5636 flights10.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 15:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1036 runs 10 points better at 81.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1036 next to MSP to ATL
Every carrier on MSP to ATL combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 3,489 flights, so DL 1036 is about level with it. Delta flew 3,207 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1036thin sample | 347 | 81.6% | 50 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–ATL | 3,207 | 83.6% | 67 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–ATL | 3,489 | 81.7% | 67 min | 0.49% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1036 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1036 held fairly steady: 80.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 82.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 77.4% in Jul–Sep 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 202530 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights83.3%
- Jan–Mar 202686 flights82.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights77.4%
Scale runs 70% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 1036 did best on Wednesday at 94.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 61.2%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 33 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1036 runs when it is late
DL 1036 often beats the schedule: 136 of 347 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 64 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 15 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early136 flights39.2%
- Within 15 min147 flights42.4%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late19 flights5.5%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.9%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 347 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 69 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 22 still arrived on time. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1036
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 August 2026, 3 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 October 2025 | 2 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 2 hours 32 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1036 runs late
Carrier accounts for 48% of the 3,210 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 48%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,528 of the 3,210 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,210 delay minutes reported on DL 1036.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including PNS to ATL (12) and ATL to PNS (8), but none flew often enough under DL 1036 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. 347 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
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For a booking, read DL 1036 as 81.6% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 347 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.