Flight number record
DL 2087
Delta Air Lines · Minneapolis to San Jose
- Route
- MSP → SJC
- Departs
- 18:25
- Flights
- 347
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2087, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2087 sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so DL 2087 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 88 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.86%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
11.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 347 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When DL 2087 flies
DL 2087 flies MSP to SJC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:25, used on 74 of 347 flights, with 18:30 (50 flights) next.
- Departs 18:2574 flights21.3%
- Departs 18:3050 flights14.4%
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 18:25 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and DL 2087 runs level with that at 68.5%. 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 2087 next to MSP to SJC
Every carrier on MSP to SJC combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 511 flights, so DL 2087 is 5 points behind it. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2087thin sample | 347 | 68.5% | 65 min | 0.86% | C+ |
| All Delta Air Lines on MSP–SJC | 511 | 73.9% | 64 min | 0.98% | C+ |
| All carriers on MSP–SJC | 511 | 73.9% | 64 min | 0.98% | C+ |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2087 quarter by quarter
DL 2087 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.9% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 55.2%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 69 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 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights55.2%
- Jan–Mar 202679 flights76.9%
- Apr–Jun 202686 flights70.9%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights74.2%
Scale runs 45% to 80%.
By weekday, DL 2087 did best on Saturday at 83.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 58.3%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2087 runs when it is late
The 108 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 46 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early79 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min156 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late24 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late46 flights13.4%
- 1–2 hours late21 flights6.1%
- 2+ hours late17 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 99 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 23 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 SJC.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2087
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 February 2026, 4 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 February 2026 | 4 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 December 2025 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 June 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 June 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why DL 2087 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 6,995 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 17%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,995 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. The split is drawn from 6,995 delay minutes reported on DL 2087.
Cancellations are rare at 0.86%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
11.1% 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 1,575 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.
Every one of the 347 flights under DL 2087 in the data flew MSP to SJC. 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. 347 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 2087
For a booking, DL 2087 is one of the weaker ways to fly MSP to SJC: 5 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) delay statistics
- Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (SJC) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.