Flight number record

DL 1615

Delta Air Lines · Spokane to Minneapolis

Route: GEG → MSP
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1615, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 1615 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, DL 1615's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 141 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

91.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 362 completed flights

Avg delay

114 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.82%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 1615 flies

DL 1615 flies GEG to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 94 of 365 flights, with 06:50 (72 flights) and 06:30 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:0094 flights25.8%
Departs 06:5072 flights19.7%
Departs 06:3038 flights10.4%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1615 runs 2 points better at 91.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

DL 1615 next to GEG to MSP

Every carrier on GEG to MSP combined arrived on time 90.3% of the time across 782 flights, so DL 1615 is about level with it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

DL 1615 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 1615	365	91.7%	114 min	0.82%	A+
All Delta Air Lines on GEG–MSP	782	90.3%	117 min	0.64%	A+
All carriers on GEG–MSP	782	90.3%	117 min	0.64%	A+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 1615 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter DL 1615 held fairly steady: 94.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.9% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 91.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights94.6%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.3%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.1%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 1615 ranged from 88.5% on Friday to 94.1% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why DL 1615 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 91% of the 3,412 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
91%
National Airspace System
8%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 91%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,115 of the 3,412 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,412 delay minutes reported on DL 1615.

Cancellations are rare at 0.82%, 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 1,175 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 365 flights under DL 1615 in the data flew GEG 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 1615

For a booking, DL 1615 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 91.7% on time and 0.82% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single 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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