Flight number record
DL 1193
Delta Air Lines · Washington to Minneapolis
- Route
- DCA → MSP
- Departs
- 06:05
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1193's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1193 flies
DL 1193 flies DCA to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:05, used on 158 of 365 flights, with 06:10 (96 flights) and 06:00 (62 flights) next.
- Departs 06:05158 flights43.3%
- Departs 06:1096 flights26.3%
- Departs 06:0062 flights17.0%
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 06:05 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 87.4%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 1193 next to DCA to MSP
Every carrier on DCA to MSP combined arrived on time 75.6% of the time across 2,632 flights, so DL 1193 is 12 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,701 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.9% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1193 | 365 | 87.4% | 69 min | 1.92% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DCA–MSP | 1,701 | 78.9% | 94 min | 1.88% | B |
| All carriers on DCA–MSP | 2,632 | 75.6% | 90 min | 3.23% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1193 quarter by quarter
DL 1193 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 92.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 80.6%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights92.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights90.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights80.6%
Scale runs 70% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1193 ranged from 82.7% on Saturday to 94.0% on Monday. With about 52 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1193 runs when it is late
DL 1193 often beats the schedule: 104 of 358 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 45 late arrivals split 13 under half an hour, 16 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early104 flights29.1%
- Within 15 min209 flights58.4%
- 15–29 min late13 flights3.6%
- 30–59 min late16 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.5%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 37 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1193
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 December 2025, 6 hours 8 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 December 2025 | 6 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 3 hours 40 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 June 2026 | 3 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1193 runs late
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 3,123 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 4%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,483 of the 3,123 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,123 delay minutes reported on DL 1193.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% 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 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.
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, read DL 1193 as 87.4% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- DCA to MSP, every carrier and departure
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.