Flight number record
DL 1193
Delta Air Lines · Washington to Minneapolis
- Route
- DCA → MSP
- Departs
- 06:10
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1193, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1193 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1193'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.
Key figures
On time
89.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 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 1193 flies
DL 1193 flies DCA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:10, used on 134 of 365 flights, with 06:05 (129 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:10134 flights36.7%
- Departs 06:05129 flights35.3%
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 06:10 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1193 runs level with that 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 1193 next to DCA to MSP
Every carrier on DCA to MSP combined arrived on time 77.3% of the time across 2,574 flights, so DL 1193 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,695 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1193 | 365 | 89.0% | 76 min | 2.74% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DCA–MSP | 1,695 | 79.9% | 98 min | 2.06% | B |
| All carriers on DCA–MSP | 2,574 | 77.3% | 90 min | 2.80% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 1193 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 1193 held fairly steady: 89.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 92.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 90.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights89.9%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1193 did best on Monday at 93.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 1193 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 82% of the 2,958 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.
- 82%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 82%, 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 2,416 of the 2,958 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,958 delay minutes reported on DL 1193.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.9% 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 931 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 365 flights under DL 1193 in the data flew DCA to MSP. 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. 365 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 1193
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1193: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DCA to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to DCA, the return direction
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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.