Flight number record
DL 1641
Delta Air Lines · Newark to Minneapolis
- Route
- EWR → MSP
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1641, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1641 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.7 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 1641's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 109 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
162 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.21%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When DL 1641 flies
DL 1641 flies EWR to MSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 182 of 365 flights, with 06:00 (100 flights) next.
- Departs 06:15182 flights49.9%
- Departs 06:00100 flights27.4%
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 06:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 1641 runs level with that at 88.2%. 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 1641 next to EWR to MSP
Every carrier on EWR to MSP combined arrived on time 79.3% of the time across 2,226 flights, so DL 1641 is 9 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,240 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1641 | 365 | 88.2% | 162 min | 5.21% | A− |
| All Delta Air Lines on EWR–MSP | 1,240 | 79.0% | 116 min | 4.60% | B− |
| All carriers on EWR–MSP | 2,226 | 79.3% | 97 min | 4.58% | B− |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1641 quarter by quarter
DL 1641 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 82.8%, a swing of 14 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 flights88.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights82.8%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 1641 did best on Saturday at 95.9% on time and worst on Tuesday at 78.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1641 runs when it is late
DL 1641 often beats the schedule: 176 of 346 completed flights, 51%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When DL 1641 is late it tends to be very late: 22 of its 41 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 17 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early176 flights50.9%
- Within 15 min129 flights37.3%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.2%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.3%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.4%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 346 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1641
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 12 hours 22 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | 12 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 9 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 June 2026 | 8 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 July 2026 | 7 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 April 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1641 runs late
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 6,648 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,305 of the 6,648 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,648 delay minutes reported on DL 1641.
Cancellations run at 5.21%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.4% 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 2.7 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,008 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 1641 in the data flew EWR 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 1641
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 1641: 5.21% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.7 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to MSP, every carrier and departure
- MSP to EWR, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2864 on the same route82.2%
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.