Flight number record

DL 1036

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Atlanta

Route: MSP → ATL
Departs: 15:50
Flights: 347
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1036, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1036 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 347 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1036's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 48 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights

Avg delay

48 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 347 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 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. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:5039 flights11.2%
Departs 14:5636 flights10.4%

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 15:50 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1036 runs 10 points better at 82.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1036 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 1036 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 1036 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1036thin sample	347	82.4%	48 min	0.00%	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 1036 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1036 held fairly steady: 81.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.3%
Oct–Dec 202578 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 202686 flights82.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.4%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1036 did best on Monday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1036 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,944 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
27%
National Airspace System
25%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, 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 1,283 of the 2,944 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,944 delay minutes reported on DL 1036.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% 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 3.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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 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

Booking DL 1036

For a booking, read DL 1036 as 82.4% on time with 0.00% cancelled over 347 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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