Flight number record
DL 2074
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to San Francisco
- Route
- MSP → SFO
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2074, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2074 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is roughly 50 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2074 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 114 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 361 completed flights
Avg delay
52 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.10%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2074 flies
DL 2074 flies MSP to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 117 of 365 flights, with 11:15 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 11:00117 flights32.1%
- Departs 11:1545 flights12.3%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and DL 2074 runs 12 points worse at 65.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
DL 2074 next to MSP to SFO
Every carrier on MSP to SFO combined arrived on time 66.8% of the time across 1,926 flights, so DL 2074 is about level with it. Delta flew 1,449 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.4% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2074 | 365 | 65.9% | 52 min | 1.10% | C |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SFO | 1,449 | 65.4% | 50 min | 0.76% | C+ |
| All carriers on MSP–SFO | 1,926 | 66.8% | 55 min | 0.67% | C+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | 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 83.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 46.8%, a swing of 37 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights78.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights50.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights46.8%
Scale runs 40% to 90%.
By weekday, DL 2074 did best on Tuesday at 76.9% on time and worst on Sunday at 60.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2074 runs when it is late
DL 2074 often beats the schedule: 94 of 361 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 123 late arrivals split 47 under half an hour, 41 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early94 flights26.0%
- Within 15 min144 flights39.9%
- 15–29 min late47 flights13.0%
- 30–59 min late41 flights11.4%
- 1–2 hours late26 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 361 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 108 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. In the other direction, 35 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 SFO.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2074
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 April 2026, 5 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2026 | 5 hours 13 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 5 September 2025 | 4 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 2 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 May 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 July 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2074 runs late
National Airspace System accounts for 66% of the 6,410 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 66%National Airspace System
- 28%Carrier
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
66% 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 4,208 minutes out of 6,410, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 6,410 delay minutes reported on DL 2074.
Cancellations sit at 1.10% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 65.9% on time with 1.10% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to MSP, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 756 on the same route70.5%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) 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
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.