Flight number record
DL 2007
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to Hartford
- Route
- MSP → BDL
- Departs
- 10:20
- Flights
- 300
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2007, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2007 lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 300 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2007's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 52 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 291 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.00%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 300 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2007 flies
DL 2007 flies MSP to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:20, used on 79 of 300 flights, with 10:10 (42 flights) and 10:30 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 10:2079 flights26.3%
- Departs 10:1042 flights14.0%
- Departs 10:3041 flights13.7%
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 10:20 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and DL 2007 runs level with that at 82.8%. 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 2007 next to MSP to BDL
Every carrier on MSP to BDL combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 833 flights, so DL 2007 is 2 points ahead of it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2007thin sample | 300 | 82.8% | 58 min | 3.00% | B |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–BDL | 833 | 81.2% | 64 min | 2.16% | B |
| All carriers on MSP–BDL | 833 | 81.2% | 64 min | 2.16% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,038,570 | 81.6% | 71 min | 1.62% | B |
Across the year
DL 2007 quarter by quarter
DL 2007 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 89.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.0%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 75 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 202550 flights76.0%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights79.5%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights83.6%
- Apr–Jun 202688 flights89.5%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, DL 2007 did best on Thursday at 88.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 71.8%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why DL 2007 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 71% of the 2,922 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.
- 71%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 71%, 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 2,062 of the 2,922 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,922 delay minutes reported on DL 2007.
Cancellations run at 3.00%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
6.5% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,050 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.
DL 2007 is not only a MSP to BDL flight. It also flew BDL to MSP (299 flights, 82.2% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 300 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BDL to MSPthin sample | 299 | 82.2% | 86 min | 3.68% | B− |
What to do with this
Booking DL 2007
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on DL 2007: 3.00% of its 300 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to BDL, every carrier and departure
- BDL to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2871 on the same route78.3%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Delta Air Lines on-time record
- Every Delta Air Lines flight number with a record
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.