Flight number record
DL 1276
Delta Air Lines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Minneapolis
- Route
- DFW → MSP
- Departs
- 06:50
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1276, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1276 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 12 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 1276's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 121 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
82 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 1276 flies
DL 1276 flies DFW to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:50, used on 99 of 365 flights, with 07:00 (90 flights) and 06:00 (76 flights) next.
- Departs 06:5099 flights27.1%
- Departs 07:0090 flights24.7%
- Departs 06:0076 flights20.8%
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 06:50 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1276 runs level with that at 89.4%. 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 1276 next to DFW to MSP
Every carrier on DFW to MSP combined arrived on time 74.0% of the time across 3,311 flights, so DL 1276 is 15 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,413 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1276 | 365 | 89.4% | 82 min | 1.92% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on DFW–MSP | 1,413 | 81.4% | 85 min | 1.42% | B |
| All carriers on DFW–MSP | 3,311 | 74.0% | 73 min | 2.08% | C |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1276 quarter by quarter
DL 1276 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 87.0%, a swing of 13 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 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1276 ranged from 84.3% on Saturday to 94.0% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1276 runs when it is late
DL 1276 often beats the schedule: 97 of 357 completed flights, 27%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 38 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early97 flights27.2%
- Within 15 min222 flights62.2%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.2%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 357 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 3 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1276
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 January 2026, 8 hours 27 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7 January 2026 | 8 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 February 2026 | 4 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 October 2025 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 30 November 2025 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1276 runs late
Carrier accounts for 68% of the 3,112 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 68%Carrier
- 18%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
- 0%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,112 delay minutes reported on DL 1276.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
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 852 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 1276 in the data flew DFW 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
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For a booking, read DL 1276 as 89.4% 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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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.