Flight number record
DL 1282
Delta Air Lines · Las Vegas to Minneapolis
- Route
- LAS → MSP
- Departs
- 06:20
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1282, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1282 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 15 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.5 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1282's record is 15 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 149 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
92.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 359 completed flights
Avg delay
151 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1282 flies
DL 1282 flies LAS to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:20, used on 120 of 365 flights, with 06:15 (64 flights) and 06:19 (57 flights) next.
- Departs 06:20120 flights32.9%
- Departs 06:1564 flights17.5%
- Departs 06:1957 flights15.6%
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 06:20 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1282 runs 3 points better at 92.2%. 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 1282 next to LAS to MSP
Every carrier on LAS to MSP combined arrived on time 84.7% of the time across 2,091 flights, so DL 1282 is 8 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,956 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 86.2% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1282 | 365 | 92.2% | 151 min | 1.37% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on LAS–MSP | 1,956 | 86.2% | 87 min | 1.02% | A |
| All carriers on LAS–MSP | 2,091 | 84.7% | 82 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1282 quarter by quarter
DL 1282 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 85.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 91 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights96.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights88.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 1282 ranged from 88.5% on Saturday to 96.0% 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1282 runs when it is late
DL 1282 often beats the schedule: 169 of 359 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 28 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights47.1%
- Within 15 min162 flights45.1%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late7 flights1.9%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 359 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 28 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1282
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 March 2026, 12 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2026 | 12 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 7 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 February 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 February 2026 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 August 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1282 runs late
Carrier accounts for 71% of the 4,227 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 71%Carrier
- 27%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,000 of the 4,227 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,227 delay minutes reported on DL 1282.
Cancellations sit at 1.37% 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 3.6% 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 1,299 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 1282 in the data flew LAS 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 1282
For a booking, DL 1282 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 92.2% on time and 1.37% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- LAS to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to LAS, the return direction
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.