Flight number record
DL 1476
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Detroit
- Route
- MSP → DTW
- Departs
- 15:55
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1476, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1476 lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 55 minutes on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
78.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 363 completed flights
Avg delay
55 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1476 flies
DL 1476 flies MSP to DTW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:55, used on 56 of 365 flights, with 16:55 (56 flights) and 16:15 (51 flights) next.
- Departs 15:5556 flights15.3%
- Departs 16:5556 flights15.3%
- Departs 16:1551 flights14.0%
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 15:55 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and DL 1476 runs 7 points better at 78.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 1476 next to MSP to DTW
Every carrier on MSP to DTW combined arrived on time 82.7% of the time across 1,884 flights, so DL 1476 is 4 points behind it. Delta flew 1,881 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.8% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1476 | 365 | 78.8% | 55 min | 0.55% | B+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DTW | 1,881 | 82.8% | 59 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| All carriers on MSP–DTW | 1,884 | 82.7% | 59 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1476 quarter by quarter
DL 1476 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9%, a swing of 25 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 flights96.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights78.7%
Scale runs 65% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1476 did best on Tuesday at 84.6% on time and worst on Sunday at 70.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1476 runs when it is late
DL 1476 often beats the schedule: 92 of 363 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 77 late arrivals split 25 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights25.3%
- Within 15 min194 flights53.4%
- 15–29 min late25 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late28 flights7.7%
- 1–2 hours late18 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 363 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 76 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1476
The latest arrival of the period was on 6 February 2026, 4 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across February, December and July, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 6 February 2026 | 4 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 February 2026 | 3 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 8 July 2026 | 2 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 2 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1476 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 4,207 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 27%National Airspace System
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,826 of the 4,207 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,207 delay minutes reported on DL 1476.
Cancellations are rare at 0.55%, below the national 1.89% 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
6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 528 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 1476 in the data flew MSP to DTW. 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 1476 as 78.8% on time with 0.55% 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.