Flight number record

DL 1052

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Atlanta

Route: MSP → ATL
Departs: 08:55
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1052, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1052 earns an A+. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 45 minutes. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1052's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 114 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

46 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When DL 1052 flies

DL 1052 flies MSP to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:55, used on 129 of 363 flights, with 08:00 (93 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 08:55129 flights35.5%
Departs 08:0093 flights25.6%

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 08:55 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 1052 runs 5 points better at 89.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 1052 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 1052 is 6 points ahead of 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%, which this flight beats by 7 points.

DL 1052 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1052thin sample	363	89.0%	46 min	0.28%	A+
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 1052 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1052 held fairly steady: 87.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 88.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.4% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202590 flights87.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.8%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.4%

Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1052 ranged from 84.6% on Thursday to 92.3% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1052 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 1,820 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
57%
National Airspace System
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
8%
Extreme weather
2%

33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 595 minutes out of 1,820, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 1,820 delay minutes reported on DL 1052.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.5% 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.

Every one of the 363 flights under DL 1052 in the data flew MSP to ATL. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 363 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 1052

For a booking, DL 1052 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 89.0% on time and 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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