Flight number record

DL 2074

Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to San Francisco

Route: MSP → SFO
Departs: 11:15
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2074, check with Delta Air Lines.

DL 2074 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 5 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so DL 2074 runs 5 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 50 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.10%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 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 2074 flies

DL 2074 flies MSP to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:15, used on 80 of 365 flights, with 11:00 (61 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:1580 flights21.9%
Departs 11:0061 flights16.7%

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 11:15 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and DL 2074 runs 6 points worse at 72.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

DL 2074 next to MSP to SFO

Every carrier on MSP to SFO combined arrived on time 70.5% of the time across 1,919 flights, so DL 2074 is 2 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,445 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.1% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.6%, which this flight trails by 9 points.

DL 2074 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DL 2074	365	72.6%	53 min	1.10%	C
All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SFO	1,445	70.1%	53 min	0.76%	C+
All carriers on MSP–SFO	1,919	70.5%	58 min	0.68%	C+
Delta Air Lines, whole network	1,038,570	81.6%	71 min	1.62%	B

Across the year

DL 2074 quarter by quarter

DL 2074 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 84.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 50.5%, a swing of 34 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 202592 flights84.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.7%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.4%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights50.5%

Scale runs 40% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, DL 2074 did best on Tuesday at 83.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 66.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why DL 2074 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. National Airspace System accounts for 62% of the 5,212 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.

National Airspace System
62%
Carrier
30%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%

62% 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 3,208 minutes out of 5,212, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 5,212 delay minutes reported on DL 2074.

Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

7.8% 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 55 minutes, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 1,589 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SFO to MSP (24), but none flew often enough under DL 2074 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to SFO only.

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 2074

For a booking, read DL 2074 as 72.6% on time with 1.10% cancelled over 365 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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