Flight number record
DL 1711
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Grand Rapids
- Route
- MSP → GRR
- Departs
- 21:40
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 1711, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 1711 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 360 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 355 completed flights
Avg delay
54 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.11%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 1711 flies
DL 1711 flies MSP to GRR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:40, used on 71 of 360 flights, with 20:45 (49 flights) and 20:20 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 21:4071 flights19.7%
- Departs 20:4549 flights13.6%
- Departs 20:2048 flights13.3%
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 21:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and DL 1711 runs 5 points better at 74.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
DL 1711 next to MSP to GRR
Every carrier on MSP to GRR combined arrived on time 79.5% of the time across 1,253 flights, so DL 1711 is 5 points behind it. Delta flew 595 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.0% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 1711thin sample | 360 | 74.6% | 54 min | 1.11% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–GRR | 595 | 77.0% | 62 min | 1.01% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–GRR | 1,253 | 79.5% | 67 min | 1.04% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 1711 quarter by quarter
DL 1711 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 67.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 72 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights76.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights67.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights68.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 1711 did best on Wednesday at 86.3% on time and worst on Friday at 63.5%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 1711 runs when it is late
DL 1711 often beats the schedule: 89 of 355 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 90 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early89 flights25.1%
- Within 15 min176 flights49.6%
- 15–29 min late33 flights9.3%
- 30–59 min late28 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late10 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 355 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 76 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 8 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 22 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at GRR.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 1711
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 November 2025, 2 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 August 2026 | 2 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 2 hours 27 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 21 May 2026 | 2 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 June 2026 | 2 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 1711 runs late
Carrier accounts for 58% of the 4,821 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Carrier
- 23%National Airspace System
- 15%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,779 of the 4,821 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,821 delay minutes reported on DL 1711.
Cancellations sit at 1.11% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.2% 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 roughly 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.
Every one of the 360 flights under DL 1711 in the data flew MSP to GRR. 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. 360 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 1711
For a booking, read DL 1711 as 74.6% on time with 1.11% cancelled over 360 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to GRR, every carrier and departure
- GRR to MSP, the return direction
- 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
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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.