Flight number record

DL 1476

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Detroit

Route: MSP → DTW
Departs: 15:55
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 50 minutes on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

On time

79.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

52 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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 362 flights, with 16:55 (56 flights) and 15:50 (52 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 15:5556 flights15.5%
Departs 16:5556 flights15.5%
Departs 15:5052 flights14.4%

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 15:55 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and DL 1476 runs 7 points better at 79.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 1476 next to MSP to DTW

Every carrier on MSP to DTW combined arrived on time 82.3% of the time across 1,932 flights, so DL 1476 is 3 points behind it. Delta flew 1,887 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

DL 1476 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1476thin sample	362	79.5%	52 min	0.28%	B+
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–DTW	1,887	82.1%	65 min	0.53%	B+
All carriers on MSP–DTW	1,932	82.3%	66 min	0.52%	B+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	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 87.6% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.9%, a swing of 16 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 202589 flights87.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights81.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights76.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1476 did best on Tuesday at 86.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 1476 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,858 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
34%
Carrier
33%
Late-arriving aircraft
25%
Extreme weather
7%

34% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,327 minutes out of 3,858, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 3,858 delay minutes reported on DL 1476.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 1.81% 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

6.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last roughly 50 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. 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 362 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. 362 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 1476

For a booking, read DL 1476 as 79.5% on time with 0.28% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

Where to go next

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.

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